We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 MUST LISTEN
staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by Senator Chris Murphy
The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
This is excellent news, though one wishes that the Holy Father had gone further and not left this as a subject or special approval from the Curia. As a priest and canonist I know once expressed, it isn't very coherent to insist that governance in religious orders must be tied to Holy Orders, when abbesses and other female major superiors have been exercising governance in their communities for over 1500 years. The real reason for the law preventing lay brothers from holding leadership in instit…
Hmmm, if you think that priests have been clerical, wait until you see the laity. I suspect that the type of layperson that ends up in these positions will expect considerably more deference than those who have consented to Holy Orders.
I think that this decision is completely crackers. It's not so much that I think that governance should be tied to Holy Orders, but religious communities with particular charisms are self-governing institutions, or they have no coherence. A lay superior of an ord…
I don't think you understand the decision, then. It does not mandate lay superiors for every order, it is for a few exceptional cases. Of course an order comprised solely of priests is not going to get a lay superior, as they have no laymen to assume the role.
