Catholic dad. Member at two country clubs. Caught between Trads and Novs.. Retweets dont necessarily equal endorsements. everything I say is satire (or is it?)
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I am leaving social media entirely. Including X.
Over the next few weeks, I will be reaching out to those of you i find interesting to exchange contact info in case you wish to stay in contact offline.
Social media is a societal cancer that should never have been invented.
Dan retweeted
I’m having a hard time understanding how Catholics are celebrating former Hollywood actor Bug Hall’s decision to take a self-imposed “vow of poverty,” give away his savings, move his wife and five children to rural Arkansas, and now solicit donations from strangers to pay for basic necessities while his wife is expecting their sixth child.
Hall is a married layman and not a Franciscan friar. His primary vocation is to his wife and children, and that comes with binding obligations of justice that take precedence over his personal aspirations to voluntary poverty.
Canon 1193 explicitly states that a vow binds only the person making it. His wife and children took no vow of poverty. And even if his wife agreed to this arrangement, neither parent can simply waive the children’s right to adequate provision.
St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that even entering religious life cannot justify abandoning one’s duties toward dependent children (ST II-II, q.189, a.6). And St. Paul could hardly be clearer in 1 Timothy 5:8: “But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
Hall reportedly gave away his acting savings, deliberately sought a life with minimal need for paid employment, and spent two years building a farm on nothing more than a handshake agreement before losing it. Now his pregnant wife and five children are living in a camper while he solicits donations for propane, electricity, phone bills, and construction materials.
This is apparently his SECOND GoFundMe in less than two months.
I understand that he has suffered setbacks and says he has pursued employment. But unforeseen hardships are precisely why a father with five young children ought to exercise prudence, maintain some financial security when possible, and avoid voluntarily surrendering the resources needed to care for them.
There is absolutely nothing sinful about leaving Hollywood, working an ordinary job, raising chickens, homeschooling your children, or living modestly. But why should a man’s desire to pursue an unconventional, self-imposed religious ideal take precedence over the ordinary responsibilities of fatherhood?
And why should strangers be expected to finance the consequences of that decision?
Nobody should begrudge his children the help they need. But there’s a difference between assisting a family struck by unavoidable misfortune and treating a father’s voluntary financial renunciation as some extraordinary act of Catholic heroism.
Catholic moral theology also recognizes the virtue of prudence. You cannot simply give away your family’s savings, invoke evangelical poverty, and assume that Providence will supply what you have voluntarily relinquished. Trust in God does not dispense a father from using the ordinary means available to fulfill his duties.
If following a private vow places the basic needs of one’s dependents at risk, the answer is to reconsider the vow and not treat it as a higher obligation than the duties of marriage.
Get a job, provide for your family, and practice whatever voluntary austerity you can without compromising their welfare. That is the Catholic duty you freely assumed when you married and became a father.
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Dan retweeted
Flashback.. Who could have seen this coming? (Raises hand)
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I have nothing but contempt for this.
An able-bodied man, refusing to get a steady job, living out some sort of performative poverty. And now begging for money from those of us that put up with the insanity of this world to provide for our families.
Yeah, Bug, I too wish I told could flip off into the wilderness and leave the world behind. But someone has to feed your kids.
My dear friends and fellow radicals, the day finally came where I'm genuinely in need of one of these. I aimed for the least amount to get us over the hump. Any help would be appreciated, especially in sharing this. Pray much and suffer well 💪⚜️
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Flashback.. Who could have seen this coming? (Raises hand)
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Dan retweeted
Our Office of Divine Worship explains why the faithful should refrain from extending their hands during the Our Father at Mass:
"Further, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, states that “no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.” (SC 22.3) Since the GIRM is very specific that the priest is instructed by the GIRM (152) to extend his hands when he prays the Lord’s Prayer, for the deacons or the laity to extend their hands would be adding to the liturgy. Therefore, the practice of the lay faithful extending their hands (or holding hands) during the Our Father should not be done."
Read more: archdpdx.org/news/divine-wor…
Dan retweeted
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
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Now, I ask you, do you think he is the only one?
Dan retweeted
“Died a coward. Could have died a hero.”
That is how the @mobbs_mentality daughter of Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s former special envoy for Ukraine, comments under my post about the death of Volodymyr, 32, who drowned in a river while fleeing draft officers.
A representative of the American establishment — someone who sacrifices nothing in this war, whose family members are not being killed, maimed, disappeared, or tortured in captivity — feels entitled to lecture Ukrainian men on the proper way to die.
And yes, die is precisely the word.
Because apparently, living is no longer an acceptable option for them.
They must die.
Preferably heroically. Preferably on the battlefield.
Then the Epstein class can walk alongside Zelensky, lay flowers on their graves, and deliver stirring speeches about avenging them on Russia — while feeding still more Ukrainian men into the same machinery of death.
Volodymyr was a veteran. He had already seen the horrors of war.
This time, he did not want to be a hero.
He wanted to watch his son grow up.
He did not want to die.
But people like Meaghan left Ukrainian men like him no acceptable way out. And so he died anyway.
And now people like Meaghan sneer at his death because, apparently, the only Ukrainian man worthy of respect is a dead Ukrainian man-soldier — provided he dies the “right” way.
Heroically.
On the battlefield.
A Ukrainian man who simply wants to live, to raise his child, to come home alive?
Apparently, that is asking too much.
Dan retweeted
The Arch Manning press conference/Sarkisian and Holly Rowe AI slap thing exposes among many other things, the need women have to be treated like one of the guys until they are treated like one of the guys. I found the AI thing unfunny but I wasn’t offended. Professional women in sports are the first to complain about unfair treatment and the first to victimize themselves. Unwinnable,
I dont know why anyone went back to BRC after they disavowed Kyle Rittenhouse (looking at you @scrowder)
When people tell you who they are, you should believe them.
Bunch of phony "right wingers". They were always shameless grifters.
UGA did not have a medical school until 2 years ago.
Golf is very slowly making its way into Eastern Europe.
Once it catches on, might see big demographic changes at the pro level.
Superior athletic genes. Just look at tennis.
(BTW, Nelly Korda is Czech, and daughter of a major tennis champ)
Yes, Jesus dined with sinners.
He dined with tax collectors that were skimming.
Common fornicators. Gossips. Gamblers. Drunkards. Commoners with common vices.
He did not dine with the Devil. He did not dine with this level of unrepentant evil.
Pax et Bonum brother,
Half the story wouldn’t give an accurate picture of you. The same applies to Pope Francis. Context matters.
Yes, Emma Bonino was a major abortion activist. And yes, Francis called her one of Italy’s “forgotten greats” ... for her humanitarian/refugee work, not abortion.
Francis explicitly said: “I don’t share her ideas.” He repeatedly called abortion “murder.”
Christ ate with sinners while condemning sin (similar to Pope calling abortion: "murder")
Recognizing good in a person does NOT canonize everything that person believes.
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Matthew 5:44
We can defend unborn life fiercely without rewriting the facts to attack a Pope.
PAX
Many Catholic schools in my city are majority black now because vouchers have allowed these kids to escape the public schools.
But literally none of these black kids become Catholic.
The problem is not lack of Catholic outreach. The problem - as always - is black culture.
