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Infallibly, they already are the best team in baseball (2 Cor. 5:7).
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You're still digging.
A system of checks and balances exists and is strong. Or, rather, it is as strong as the voters' will to elect someone who cares.
You cannot have any free system of govt that is better than the people. The people are the problem. Systems don't save us.
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You want idiot-proofed... freedom?
Think hard about that for a moment. Or, perhaps, read The Federalist.
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"Jean Valjean, folks. I like to say that name! Jean Valjean!! But he isn't very nice, isn't very nice. He stole some bread!! He stole it!!! How can you have a country when people are stealing bread. By the way, he probably should've stolen something more valuable, not too smart."
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We don't need more activists. We need more journalists.
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It was our job to use them correctly.
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They did anticipate parties.
They warned us about them, and how party government would reward a despot.
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Spending just a little time reading them would reveal how precarious they knew the system was because they entrusted it to the people.
We failed, not the system.
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It's the whole darned shootin' match.
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Agreeing its almost an entirely they-wont-come-to-us problem, still some characterizations of them are a kind of unwelcoming.
Open hearts, open arms.
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And.
*Anyone* unwilling to welcome the "Catholic traditionalists" who in good faith want to share the Church with the rest of us since May 8 also doesn't comprehend how fundamentally the situation has changed.
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John Ganz wrote this after October 7 and I keep coming back to it.
www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-trap
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I'm the wrong guy to ask.
I'd drain the word influencer out of English today if I could. It's too compromised by attention-seeking and monetization. It's not helping.
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Not the ballpark.
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...there are priests and bishops for whom it's not true. And the difference isn't difficult to see.
Some work is in order to highlight that.
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Its a tricky business, the academic-vs-normie Catholic divide. I get the criticism. But also, you and I are trustworthy *because* we will never get rich doing this, we serve institutions, we have media presence but aren't building media empires. There are academic for whom that's not true, much...
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...a marketing differentiator, something intended to segment (or, divide) people. Cultivating Catholicism as a brand scandalizes me, particularly when it is brand-building that can be monetized. All the more when it is done wearing a habit or a Roman collar.
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...as a grave matter. It is the teaching of Jesus on adultery. Also I called my father father (or some variation thereof) every day (Mt 23:9). Guessing Fr Schmitz is equally guilty of that.
And my point is just to highlight that it is dangerous when Catholicism becomes...
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...incompatible that we should have no relationship at all, apparently even if we are siblings.
Both the Catechism and canon law are silent on the specifics of this question and so you have to ask why so much energy gets expended on a 10min video that insists this is something we should regard...
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...(2) the 'your relationship is bigger than one day' argument is scandalously specious, its premise that 'you must respect my beliefs' is false when it claims 'I respect your beliefs' but I must decline your invitation because your beliefs are sinful. Really its an argument that we are so...