the one true church is, unfortunately, the Jansenists, and the correct ecclesiology is conciliarism

I'm from a totally different country (NZ) and most clergy are normal and not deep in US right-wing politics, but there is one terminally online nutjob who livestreams his parish Masses, and he dedicated his homily this past Sunday to Kirk, who was "martyred" by Marxism.

I can understand why the Pillar crowd isn’t frantic about this; deporting people from churches isn’t nearly as severe a threat to religious liberty as asking people to wear masks or sign a form saying you won’t provide birth control.

save yourself from this perverse generation which is perishing

I believe Sebastian Brock is an exception to this rule

JD Flynn of The Pillar also said this. "if the Church allowed same-sex marriage, I'd hang up my baptism"

again, I'm not against it (nor do I really believe in "reverence" as a criteria, that part was lampooning trads)- it's just overused. the standard posture for the Eucharistic prayer should be standing. kneeling could be used on weekdays in Lent etc

I don't kneeling should be totally removed, just restricted to days other than Sunday, and probably at some time other than the Eucharistic prayer. it's a penitential posture than has been made the be-all end-all of "reverence"

kneeling to receive the Eucharist is less reverent than standing, but if it's the best those people can do then I suppose...

same, it's not bad or anything but it's somewhat outside of my context living in another country

a few weeks later, in an article about why popes need friends- "Leo has friends, Benedict and John Paul II had friends, Francis didn't have close friends". source: "he spent long periods chatting with his close friend, the atheist Eugenio Scalfari, which is why he didn't have any close friends."

interesting. I'm for abolishing all mandatory penances

www.pillarcatholic.com/p/leo-xiv-fr...

some of it is paywalled

one of them seems like a chill guy

been watching some old videos of him visiting Roman parishes and chatting with children from his early days in Rome. he was truly lovable and remarkably free

I remember them saying in a podcast a while ago about how uncomfortable it was to have the pope personally dislike them. really hard to see how that's anything other than projection

Asked by reporters if he intends to follow through on Francis’ wish to visit Turkey for the 1,700 Anniversary of the Council of Nicea, Pope Leo responds: “We are preparing it.”

seems fine to me

From the Catholicism community on Reddit: 25 years ago OTD Algiers Archbishop Monseigneur Pierre Claverie was murdered by islamists during the islamist insurgency in Algeria Explore this post and more from the Catholicism community

massive reddit moment in this post where in response to remembering the martyrdom of a man who loved Muslims and Algeria with all his heart and in his last moments mingled his blood with that of his slain friend Mohamed Bouchikhi all they can think of doing is an Islamophobic circlejerk

salvation is the free unconditional gift of God to all, which we receive through trust, which is why all are saved

someone has to keep track of the opposition

Who must go?

today I took a closer look at some of the men from "las periferias" that Francis chose in recent years- the archbishops of Rabat, Tehran and Algiers, all places where the church is a tiny minority which lives in fraternity and dialogue with other religions. we could do much worse than that

the claim that gay people are intrinsically disordered is Not True. the claim that gay sex is intrinsically evil is Not True. these are heterodox views.

insofar as you're using "orthodox" as a synonym for "true" and "heterodox" as a synonym for "false" (and I don't tend to do that but it's okay if you want to, as long as you don't mix it up with other definitions) then that's a tautology.

what must be upheld is what is true. insofar as we can see that "orthodoxy" is not true, it must be rejected. and I do see the use of "orthodox" and "heterodox" as effectively a way of poisoning the well and making a leap from "this is not generally accepted" to "this must be wrong".

it's so joyful and freeing that we as a church are becoming able to recognize the presence of the same Spirit in LGBTQ people who are with us and alongside us, as Peter with Cornelius in Acts. we are able to see that they are not a foreign threat but fundamentally the same as us.

yes, it means that Christianity is an ever deepening search for the face of God, a journey towards the truth which we are being guided into by the Spirit. this certainly results in the shattering of our tightly held securities as we experience together the joy of being wrong.

pretty much every change is outside the limits until it happens. Gentiles were outside the limits of the Christian community until they weren't. it seems like this process of learning is a feature of Christianity and not a bug

the progressive heterodox currents are true and good, and the narrow set of doctrines are wrong and bad. it's that simple