Tom

Just blows my mind that they can imagine the Church would have *ever* taught that the current treatment of immigrants is okay.

Judge Immergut quotes James Madison from the
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787: “A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.”

“God loves us more than the devil hates us” (Origen)

FBI Director Kash Patel * ® @FBIDirectorKash X.com BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon... MSNBC has no facts and no audience In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved. & Barb McQuade @ @BarbMcQuade • 15h DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras.

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account

Hamas figured out that the US priority is putting on a show that casts Trump positively.
Say something he wants to hear, he’ll promote it. You don’t have to do anything. In this case, say yes to an already changed proposal and leave details to be worked out, as if those details aren’t the hard part.

Congratulations to Bibi on thinking that Trump would surely not backstab him the way Trump backstabs everyone else.

NEW: A 20-year federal prosecutor, fired abruptly this week even as he lead case against Abbey Gate bomber, warns his colleagues: the Trump administration is sacrificing national security to purge Trump's perceived adversaries.

w/ @dnlbrns

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Perpetual “state of exception.” (As always, sounds punchier in its original German, “Ausnahmenzustand”)

One of the most fascinating aspects of the development of the KL system in the Reich was how many shapes, forms and sizes the “camps” took. We envision them today as sprawling rural areas with barbed wire, but many earliest camps were makeshift urban establishments, some in inns, pubs or warehouses

Tradcath grifters be like, “Beauty will save the world! 🤪” then post the ugliest demonic AI slop

Pope Leo faces MAGA ire after immigration and climate change remarks | CNN Pope Leo XIV has adopted a more low-key, less combative style to his predecessor in the early months of his papacy. Pope Francis’s openness to the LGBTQ community, advocacy for migrants and critiques ...

Lirerally—

He described a consistent ethic of life derived from Gaudium et Spes and affirmed by John Paul II, authoritative magisterial teaching, and named a climate crisis named by both JP2 and Benedict XVI.

His critics are not serious people.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/e...

We should probably worry
less about what counts as pro-life in American discourse
and more about what counts as neo-paganism.
I’d start with the systemic vilification of compassion and mercy, all of which affects the poor and vulnerable, from the unborn to the abandoned elderly.

St Francis today, From his letter to all the faithful.

Non debémus secúndum carnem esse sapiéntes atque prudéntes, sed magis debémus esse símplices, húmiles et puri.*

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather we must be simple, humble and pure.

If We Have the Eucharist, Why Are We All So Hungry? This is Part 1 of a multi-part guest series by my wife Mrs. Tom, which she felt inspired to write regarding the challenges in Catholic parish community life and hospitality. Some of us experienced …

Good talk, thank you for sharing. A different but complementary reflection related to this truly inexhaustible topic that may be of interest:

Hunger, Poverty and the Eucharist I gave this talk to students at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, in February, 2024, as part of a seminar series Dr John Cavadini had organized to help celebrate the Eucharistic Year in the …

Hunger, Poverty and the Eucharist – Words and Things. A talk I gave to students at the University of Notre Dame, February, 2024. Seems appropriate for St FrancisDay.
wordsandthings.org/2025/10/04/h...

"Let us begin again, for until now we have done nothing." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

A blessed feast day to Franciscans everywhere, and all who celebrate on this feast of Saint Francis!

Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.

Yes

I could live on any combination of egg, cheese, and bread.

They can only do this because they are protected by the US. They are the bully who hides behind his big brother when anyone threatens him.

Supreme, infallible universal Vicar of God with unappealable jurisdiction over every Christian in the world: *explains something basic about the Catholic faith*

Loyal Trad, innocent as driven snow, inexplicably persecuted for his filial devotion to Holy Mother Church: "Now listen here Mr. Pope..."

RosaryAndRiflesThomist: What the Pope fails to understand is that some parts of the pro life movement outweigh the other!!!

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

a White House staffer was just tapping away all kinds of shit talk in the secret secure Signal chat in a place where someone could take *numerous* photographs of his phone screen undetected and walk them over to the Minnesota Star-Tribune

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

Literally everything they do now is dressed in the language of a serial abuser. It’s impossible to miss. Daddy hits you only when you cry.

This IS kind of like Tradcath OF

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