Tyler Grudi OFM

Thanks so much for reading. America Magazine had some great content this week too as well about the buzz word of clarity that was very good.

02.05.2025 00:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I need to finish reading this but what I’ve read so far is very good. Too many RW Catholics seem to think “clarity” is a core part of the faith. Also the idea that Francis actually promoted confusion is silly if you actually read what he wrote and said

01.05.2025 18:38 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Bishop Barron Dumbs Down the Papacy Bishop Robert Barron of Word on Fire has made a career out of promoting the new evangelization and combating what he calls the “dumbing-down” of Catholicism. Yet, when it comes to Barron’s new First T...

"When it comes to Barron’s new First Things article about Pope Francis’ legacy, nobody dumbs down the teachings of the late pontiff quite like Bishop Barron."

Tired tropes and crying 'confusion,' Barron struggles to 'fully' embrace Francis

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01.05.2025 14:50 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

"Have you considered the person who denies the Judgment? It is he who pushes aside the orphan and does not urge others to feed the needy. So woe to those who pray but are headless of their prayer, those who are all show and forbid common kindnesses."
Surah Al-Ma'un 107

21.11.2024 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was so happy @ctrlamb.bsky.social asked me abt #Conclave.

I wouldn't have thought a great #Catholic film could be made in 2024, and I was delighted to be wrong abt that. If you haven't seen it, I hope this @CNN write-up nudges you toward the ticket counter.

19.11.2024 14:08 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

“Cheer up! On your feet! He’s calling you.”
- Mark 10:49

19.11.2024 14:21 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Glad to be here. Twitter is definitely getting worse by the day. It seems pretty nice here.

17.11.2024 18:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hey Kasey! So glad to be reconnected.

17.11.2024 18:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Voters chose to rely on their worst impulses and desires to the great detriment of "truth, justice and the american way," which so concerned superheros of old. America now glorifies the archetype of Johnny Bates; conscience that never has to mature, power that answers to no one.

17.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And one need only look at some of the childish men Trump surrounds himself with. Men like Elon Musk who uses ketamine and fantasizes about armored cars and colonizing mars, or petulant boys like Matt Gaetz, who still avoids accountability for sex trafficking...

17.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

... to say or do what they want when they want. When a criminal like Donald Trump is given power and authority and can avoid accountability for his misuse of power, it signals to other men with boyish power fantasies that maybe they can do the same. Jan 6 is proof of this...

17.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The result is a superpowered child free of consequences and accountibility, free of responsibility or duty, one whose conscience is never given the opportunity to mature.

I see a lot of Johnny Bates in Trump and certainly in many of his followers who feel emboldened...

17.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Johnny Bates, aka "Kid Miracleman" is a young boy who, like Shazam, can change into an invincible hero when he says a magic word. After a terrible accident, Miracleman loses memory of his powers and grows up. But Johnny never forgets, and never changes back to a kid...

17.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Since the election, I've thought a lot about Alan Moore's "Miracleman" and particularly about the villain, Johnny Bates. It's a parable about the dangers of never growing up, of being given power at an early age, and the inevitable tyranny of boyish fantasies...

17.11.2024 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Just started on this app. I'm still navigating my social media, but I thought I'd give this a try and see how it compares to Twitter. Let me know if we're newly connected and who you are. I'm a franciscan friar studying theology in Chicago. I especially enjoy the connection of pop culture + religion

16.11.2024 16:45 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 4    📌 0