Jakob Karl Rinderknecht

Uh- isn’t this Poutine?

Dear Fr Prior,
I write to you in accordance with chapter 30 of the Rule of our Holy Father Benedict.

Br Paphnutius, having demonstrated that he have but the wits of a child, has opened himself to general correction. But as nothing should be done without the permission of the superior, I write…

The most Jesuit of traits 😊

There’s a story about an old monk from a community of my acquaintance who had his own recipe for “Epiphany Water” and would sell the bottles (but not the water) at craft fairs all over the county.

Yeah this particular piece of logic. absolutely happens all over the place.

Lots of parishes have holy water dispensers somewhere too (that are free) since some families keep a holy water stoup by the door at home

@welcome-to-united.bsky.social

Back from an excellent board meeting for the Collegeville Institute. Excited to see where our new leadership is going to take us! Thanks to United Sem of the Twin Cities for hosting!

Yeah. On board for that. Though you don’t need revelation for that. (Since that’s more internally human than “God exists”. And the Catholic tradition at least insists that “God exists” is knowable by natural reason.

There’s a huge distance between “Jesus is Lord” and “Jesus is homoousious with the Father”. And that difference is precisely the development of doctrine.

And as to whether a miracle produces knowledge from faith- sure. But knowledge of what? That the miracle happened, ok. Of a particular dogma in its particularity, it even a doctrine, probably not

So- revelation is, as Thomas points out, received by various people. There are two terms to revelation (by and to) And quidquid recipitur ad modem recipientis recipitur. So it wouldn’t be received the same by all definitionally. Complexity of a simple creator and a composite creation.

Oh yes. 💯

Also- side point- but these guys don’t really want truth. They want to be able to fight and win. Which isn’t “caring about the truth” at all.

It is the academy I was introduced to though. And thankfully one there’s alternatives to- because of women and queer and just less-toxic-dude academics

The whole Breastplate of Patrick

This is a nonsensical take.
And Burke hasn’t been a US cardinal with any real clout for decades.

This is tradcath wishcasting which for some reason the RNS has decided to play stenographer for. But I guess media now are mostly stenographers for the American far right.

And doves! Scholastica could do more bc she loved more, after all.

(Which the Dominicans could learn from)

Someone should make one the size of an actual floppy file with just a tiny opening inside 🤣

Congratulations to CTSA member Mary Kate Holman @ Fairfield University on the publication of her book, Marie-Dominique Chenu: Catholic Theology for a Changing World.

2025 NAAE Annual Conference — North American Academy of Ecumenists NAAE  2025 Conference will be held  November 20-21, 2025 , at the Huffington Ecumenical Institute (Hellenic College Holy Cross)

And- if you’re coming to Boston, consider coming a couple days early for the Annual Conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists (Nov 20-21)

bit.ly/NAAE2025

Vatican 2 Studies Unit, cosponsored with Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religions in Europe Unit. Nostra Aetate at 60. With Alaina Keller, Peter Thielen, Claire Maligot, Younus Mirza, and Jaisy Joseph. Sunday, November 23, Hynes Convention Center, 209.

Vatican 2 Studies Unit: The Role of the Theologian at the Council and in a Synodal Church. With Timothy Perron, Edward Dunar, and Therese Lautua. Sunday, Nov 23, 5-6:30pm. Hynes Convention Center, 308.

Vatican 2 Studies Unit: The Conciliar Legacy of Freedom. With Michael McGravey, Mary Kate Holman, and Stephanie Wong. Saturday Nov 22 3-4:30pm, Sheraton Back Bay B.

If you are planning on attending AAR /SBL this fall here are the sessions of the Vatican II Studies Unit- should be a good lineup!

SETON HALL LAW February 4-5, 2026 | In-Person One Newark Center, Newark, NJ 07102 Faith, Values, and the Rule of Law: An Interdisciplinary Conference Come to Seton Hall Law School for a robust program examining how the world's great religious, theological and philosophical traditions have all contributed to the understanding of justice and human dignity that underscore modern rule of law principles. Bringing together scholars in law, theology, religious studies, philosophy, political science, international affairs, history, literature, ethics, and related disciplines. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Interested in presenting? Submit an abstract of your work by Nov. 1, 2025. Or want to only attend? Scan the QR code. Rabbi Shai Held President c Dean Hadar Institute Imam Dr. Mohamad Jebara Islamic Scholar Scriptural Philologist Quinta Jurecic Staff Writer The Atlantic Dr. Cristina Traina Professor of Theology Fordham University https://law.shu.edu/events/faith-values-rule-of-law-interdisciplinary-conference.html

Organizers sent me a new digital flyer for @setonhall.bsky.social Law School’s “Faith, Values, & the Rule of Law Interdisciplinary Conference”

Abstracts being accepted until Nov 1 & it’s basically across the street from the Newark train station.

Pupdate: she got adopted today! ☺️

This morning I was home alone with the dogs. Came into the living room to discover that someone (not me) had turned on the TV and started an episode of Archer.

In other news, the puppy has decided that the TV remote looks like a chew toy.

This is still going on 10 mins later

Puppy concupiscence

Doing my annual required HR training today. Always annoying but I get why we do most of it.

But I cannot figure out why everyone on campus needs to do a 40min training on how Cleary Act statistics are compiled

Like that’s a huge amount of time to dedicate to something that’s like 10 peoples’ job

[OCTOBER] Synodality 101: Conversations in the Spirit Workshops — School for Synodality Wednesdays 8th, 15th & 22nd October 2025 A series of 3 online workshops about how to facilitate spiritual conversations.

Catholic Bluesky world:

If you’re active in any sort of ministry in & interested in deepening your experience of synodality, the Northampton, England-based School for Synodality runs free Zoom-based 3–part workshops & their next series starts Oct 8: www.schoolforsynodality.org.uk/events/synod...

As the Fall gets rolling along, here's a reminder about this CFP

We already have a model for this with religious. Catholics are supposedly good at institutions- I think we could build it.

Today‘s #Ears Update