Carl Olson

Yeah, take that and smoke it, Augustine, Newman, Chesterton, and countless others. You were and always will be clueless, stupid, second-class Catholics. The anti-convert bias among some Catholics is diabolical. Seriously.

Veritas Nostrum @TomassoLucia

@carleolson @MatthewJLB I am saying that those of us who are born Catholics, surrounded by Catholicism in every aspect of their life, it is not confusing. We understood.

The perfect antidote to staring at a screen... https://t.co/V81ITy2r3q

An exceptional essay @cworldreport by my friend @jaredjortiz, on the Nicene Creed. The opening section: The Nicene Creed invites us to die. Indeed, it requires it. This probably sounds rather dramatic, especially to those of us who recite the Creed each week without much

Ignatius Insight @ignatiusinsight

"Death and Life in the Nicene Creed": @jaredjortiz writes @cworldreport that the Nicene Creed is not just a list of propositional truths calling for intellectual assent. It is an invitation to enter with our whole being into the mysteries it articulates: https://t.co/AOlqp11gqq https://t.co/DEmUiZYcf4

The cluelessness of converts will always fall short of the gnosis of "born Catholics". https://t.co/OLKSxe6tOa

Veritas Nostrum @TomassoLucia

@carleolson Very clear to us born Catholics. We understood every single word and teaching.

"Couldn't be clearer". Under Francis, synodality (and much more) was not clear at all. At times, synodality was a sprawling, wonky mess that few Catholics really cared about; it was often said to be so many things that it became a useless term, except perhaps for those trying to

Austen Ivereigh @austeni

Pope Leo XIV today: “, I would like to assure you of my intention to continue Pope Francis’ commitment to promoting the synodal nature of the Catholic Church.” Couldn’t be clearer. https://t.co/usi2fFGeLy

Note to self: Former UN Diplomats are humor-challenged at an ontological level.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress

Someone pls explain to Don Jr the difference between PhD and MD. https://t.co/RmCEk6WltS

Let's just hope and pray that he doesn't drag his feet like Paul VI, or govern so weakly, as Paul VI did, or completely and utterly drop the ball on liturgy, as did Paul VI.

Luke Burgis @lukeburgis

We are headed toward another Humanae Vitae moment with regard to new reproductive technologies, and I sense that Leo XIV will live up to the moment like Paul VI did. The rumblings and misgivings about the new pope that I hear on the Catholic right from those who have fully

"Disgraceful..." Don't get me started. Instead, I'll quote from a recent and excellent @cworldreport essay, by an Eastern Catholic deacon and theologian: "Vatican II also emphasized the importance of episcopal collegiality. The bishops, united with the pope, form a single

Austen Ivereigh @austeni

Spot the ruse. Dissenters from the magisterium of Francis justified their disobedience by claiming he was an autocrat. Now they are using Leo’s election to support their narrative, twisting his commitment to collegiality and synodality to imply he agrees with them. Disgraceful.

This 1983 live, double LP from @PatMetheny Group on @ECMRecords won a Grammy for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. Everything from that group is, for me, required listening. The music, performed in support of 1982's "Offramp", is cinematic, expansive, and very "American," even though https://t.co/o3KTaVX285

I was told in my teens, by an elder in the Fundamentalist Bible chapel I attended (and co-founded by my father) that I should not worry about dating or marriage, as the Rapture would be taking place soon. 40 year later, I've been married for 31 years this June. Glad I ignored

Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson

Please share your worst life advice.

Time passes quickly. I remember this well (see https://t.co/m29ZYkLcyx). Cornell was a generational talent, known best for his remarkable voice but he was also a prolific and exceptional songwriter. The lyrics to Audioslave's haunting "Like a Stone" touch on death and the

All about Superunknown @AllSuperunknown

8 years today. 💔 #RIPCC 😢 https://t.co/G9BvH0eIrg

An excerpt from my @cworldreport interview with Jason Paone, editor @WordOnFire, about the impact that reading Aquinas had on @BishopBarron: CWR: Bishop Robert Barron, in the opening essay of the first edition of The New Ressourcement, reflects on his theological education. He

Ignatius Insight @ignatiusinsight

"Retrieving the best of the past in order to serve the future": @carleolson @cworldreport interviews Jason C. Paone, editor @WordOnFire, about The New Ressourcement journal, Thomism, @BishopBarron, and more: https://t.co/8sWsyusxa1 https://t.co/Qw43JX5aaE

Music by Kansas. Gin from Texas. A solid combo. In the Spirit of Things (1988) is a one of my favorite @KansasBand albums, the second of two albums with the legendary @SteveMorse on guitar (the first, Power, had a hit single but is mostly middlin', at best). This album has its https://t.co/HADzXIOd57

Hmmm. The Apostle Paul as also "too concerned" with the Church, the Body of Christ and the household of God and the pillar and bulwark of the truth (1 Tim 3:15). The Church is the bride of Christ and we know that "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" (Eph

Chris O'Leary | Catholic Survivor @IvanDOesnot

Catholics are too concerned with "The Church." They are so focused on the Church, and the Eucharist, that they have little time or energy for Jesus. The Eucharist has become an idol.

Evening in Elmira: https://t.co/Erwrzsk78Y

Who knew it would be a mysterious electrical problem in my riding lawn mower—not politics, Church stuff, or the current state of popular culture—that would finally drive me into the dark places of unmowed madness?

"There is an organic connection between our spiritual life and the dogmas. Dogmas are lights along the path of faith; they illuminate it and make it secure. Conversely, if our life is upright, our intellect and heart will be open to welcome the light shed by the dogmas of

JD Flynn @jdflynn

Doctrine as a basis of decision-making. https://t.co/rHdR1bngXj