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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 10h

I'd put Basil pretty handily at #1 but I suppose reasonable minds may disagree

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 14h

That's Right

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely correct. I know a "neither right nor left" type who's never managed a criticism of Trump aside from "he's from New York so he's mean"

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 17h

“What you give to the poor is not your property, but theirs. Why have you appropriated what was given for common use?”

- Comrade Ambrose, people's commissar for religious affairs of Milan

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 17h

Reupping !

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

does anybody have a good essay or survey of the reception of specifically greek patristics in the second reformation period in England

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 17h

Race traitor Leo he'll yeah

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

LMAO

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 17h

Flying to a friend's wedding tonight, prayers for travel welcomed if you are willing

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 18h

Of course but my page must stay pure

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 18h

Marcionist QTers will be BLOCKED

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 21h

Basil is mentioned in the document! You knew what he was cooking!

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 21h

My one quibble with the encyclical is that Chrysostom is emphatically not the most forceful of the Greek Fathers on wealth and greed and what not

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 22h

*looks up dazed and bedraggled from City of God and The Uses of Idolatry reading group prep*

"I'm doing my part!"

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 22h

"Faith without works is dead" really is the vibe and while this is just one example I found it a particularly striking rebuke of the idea that you can be Spiritually supportive of the poor or whatever while doing fuck-all

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 22h

Also this made me laugh

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 22h

I think my first read is "this is an excellent rebuttal to the claim that justice is a secondary concern, or that caring about it is somehow an innovation (as in Barron)"

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 23h

"Wanting to inaugurate a kingdom of justice, fraternity and solidarity, God has a special place in his heart for those who are discriminated against and oppressed, and he asks us, his Church, to make a decisive and radical choice in favor of the weakest."

(Pope Leo XIV)

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 23h

"Friends, we Catholics like to say we practice a 'both/and' religion. So it is we who are uniquely able to say both that the Pope is 'an American' and that he is UnAmerican'"

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 23h

One might go so far as to call us a circular firing squad

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Catholic influencers logging on to vatican dot va this morning

Kombucha woman meme, but reversed. In the first box, above the "intrigued" face, is "Apostolic Exhortation 'Dilexi Te' of the Holy Father Leo XIV to All Christians..." And in the second box, above the "disgusted" face, is the rest of the title of the new document: "...on Love for the Poor"

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Dilexi Te and this dropping the same day is another one of those apocalyptic coincidences/provisions

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Man if only there was a famous Bible story about this, and maybe a well-known philosopher that Wilson pretends to have read could talk about that Bible story and how getting people to stone someone is the work of anti-Christ

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Man if only there was a famous Bible story about this, and maybe a well-known philosopher that Wilson pretends to have read could talk about that Bible story and how getting people to stone someone is the work of anti-Christ

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Listening and learning

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

If people knew he was Mormon now Rudy Reuttiger (sp?) would have a compelling case

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 1d

Should be noted that that's not what's being said in the document, but that our definition of "poverty" is out of touch with reality

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