Phil Brown 

A convert happy to wander about in the vast glory of Catholic tradition.
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Of course she didn’t drink there, the bar is 4ft 6!

I want to believe that Trump's win signals the beginning of the end of Wokism in the USA, Canada, the UK, Australia, etc., but I am afraid that that is probably a bit too optimistic.

The Woke tree is now deeply rooted (certainly in education, at all levels), and it will take more than just a change of government to chop it down. I have a feeling the Wokists will double-down in the name of "resistance".

On the bright side, AOC no longer lists her pronouns (as of a few days ago, according to a Twee…

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The poster child of DEI is actually Barack Obama. He was unaccomplished individual probably from Kenya, who, somehow with his pot smoking unaccomplished high school education got into prestigious, Occidental college in California. After two years of unaccomplished, education and pot smoking, he transferred to prestigious Columbia University in New York and maintained his unaccomplished college career. Miraculously, he applied and was accepted to prestigious Harvard law school with less than a r…

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So is the Synod on Synodality now just the Lambeth Conference?

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Anybody who has read a modicum of Aristotle’s writings would find preposterous the assertion that Aristotle made such an obvious blunder as to say that males have a greater number of teeth than females (in men, goats, sheep and swine). It must be the case that the text in which such statement is purportedly made has been corrupted in transmission. Rather than saying that males have “more” teeth, the text should read “larger” teeth. See Aristotle on the History of Animals and on the Parts of Animals.

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Revelation is indeed unchanging. Doctrine can develop over time, but it can only be the development of that contained in the deposit of faith. Newman's classic essay is essential in this regard.

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"The premise that ‘paradigm shift’ means a break from the past is unfounded.”"

It is worth noting that the phrase "paradigm shift" was coined by philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn. It refers to his view that science consists of revolutions in which the previous body of science is completely removed from the new science. In his words, Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are incommensurable and scientists within each of those paradigms can't even meaningfully communicate with each other. So a paradi…

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"I reject the idea that a paradigm shift is a rupture." I'm inclined to say that this quote alone shows the limits of attempting to engage with Cupich's statements at their face value.

I'm not saying it's impossible for ecclesiastical catchphrases to have rational content, but it's also pretty clear that they're generally used as empty signifiers. When "accompaniment" is being deployed to talk about shutting down TLMs, it's pretty obvious that it could mean just about anything.

A smart churchman …

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Her being 28 yo is part of the problem. It took me years and years of practice before I was able to become a competent dentist and gunslinger. Nothing, but nothing, can make up for experience. And she has precious little of it.

I'd feel much better if all our media were cynical 55 yo chain-smoking men.