Chris Fleming

I haven't read the brief myself but I've seen many supporters of birthright citizenship criticize it for poor expression or infidelity to actual Catholic Social Teaching so that it stands to cause more issues internally for the church.

Me, but with SHAZAM

My niece's scout troop did a model legislature thing recently and the piece of legislation that they decided to pass: banning the use of laptops and tablets in classrooms. They hate it, man.

For anyone wondering since the poor individual blocked me

Mussolini's "everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state" is about as anti-libertarian as it gets. The Nazi economy was built on state direction of industry, price controls, and four-year plans. Calling that "unbridled capitalism" is just historically illiterate

The actual fascist intellectuals like Giovanni Gentile, the corporatist theorists, etc. were explicitly hostile to classical liberalism and laissez-faire.

Your op that I quoted is just asserted as a brute fact (which it isn't), and then "fascist capitalism (the one deployed by Trump and Hitler)" casually equates two figures separated by, among other things, industrialized genocide. That's not analysis. It's vibes with a causal arrow drawn on.

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This is, of course, a poor reading of history and theory. If anything, the causes or roots of fascism are contingent and institutional which resist any clear causal relationships.

Fascism somewhat famously placed itself as a "third way" between market liberalism and Marxist socialism.

Right. But this person appears to have believed that Cato didn't support those things

I think he's confused them with Heritage

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

I think another part of it is that if Trump likes anything, he likes New York. And Mamdani being its mayor puts him high on the list for Trump because that's how the old machine politics worked.

Catholic Bluesky discourse from last couple of days drove me to make a realization about the extent to which "openness to life" is popularly framed within what nearly amounts to a heretical Origenist* framework with preexistent souls, when Catholic teaching is clear the soul is created at conception

Same. It's starting to not hold its charge as well but it's a damn good phone

The exterior is fine. I'm not particularly moved by the interior. But I don't go there for aesthetics.

My parish. Gonna be honest the crucifix hanging from the ceiling over the sanctuary has always weirded me out. It was built in the 70s

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Only thing I can think of is the punt block by Steve Gleason

Yep at the New Orleans Bowl

He's not afaik

Because we are all so culturally conditioned by the cadence of the Tyndale/KJV lineage, Knox's phrasing can feel jarring at first. It’s definitely not the text you'd use for granular historical-critical study, but for sheer literary flow and continuous reading, for me it reads better.

Knox’s goal was to translate the Vulgate into a timeless, elevated English that read naturally on its own merits. He was xoing dynamic equivalence.

The NRSV is definitely the gold standard for strict academic exegesis, so I completely get sticking with it. But your read on Knox is actually the exact opposite of his project! Knox explicitly disliked "Bible English" and wasn't trying to bridge the KJV and DR at all.

As @kalanthropos.bsky.social noted, the Knox Bible is exceptional. The prose is fantastic. F.F. Bruce, one of the preeminent Biblical scholars said something like never has a translation never sounded like a translation.

I struggle with my faith and historical-critical commentary so I read as much of it as I can. The NRSVue is good! Hasn't become the standard in college courses yet. I remember waiting years for the new NABRE Old Testament translation.

Not to defend Bishop Barron but the WoF Bible is th NRSV translation so it's the standard college/university critical Bible. It's closer to the Great Adventure Bible than either the NABRE or Ignatius. It's not a study bible though.

I'm not trying to be disrespectful at all. I use the NRSV Oxford Annotated. So in some ways the NABRE is too conservative for me. But I keep an array of Bibles to reference and read.

Actually that's all I got

You do not get the full picture without both because Catholic exegesis requires understanding both the human instrument's historical context and the principal Divine Author's theological intent. Flattening the traditional pole to "literalist nonsense" is just a refusal to do that heavy lifting. 6/