It’s so we know what side we are on when it throws down.

I don't know. The big gerrymanders were along the southern border of TX. Having lived in Texas, I know that the long term Latino community there prefers the nomenclature Hispanic and sees a wide difference b/w their needs and recent migrants. But the fed overreach for sure could tip the balance.

Did I really just hear him recycle the anti-Jewish trope that the Temple was exploring the poor? In 2025?

Tom Shaw did this regularly as bishop of Massachusetts

I can't unsee it now

Go ahead and treat yourself.

This is a bad look for you.

My religious identity is bound up with these ideals. And my work in interreligious relations is also intertwined with many of these assumptions.
And all of those assumptions are slipping away.
What comes next is unknown. But fifty years from now we will be on the other side of a new order.
3/3

The liberal order arrived at these things imperfectly, flawed, haltingly.
At times the effects were ruinous. Other times they were for the good. But these ideas became norms.
And now they are quickly slipping away.
2/3

Yeah, that was my immediate thought. I can only imagine the way conversations go at home.

Congratulations!

That is awful. At my parish we just say a prayer during the prayers of the people that acknowledges the complexity. I really don't like anything to do with it in church, but some folks want to hear something.

What is the important here is that some permissions for other liturgies exist under a 2018 resolution encouraging developing new liturgies. This does not mean that anything can be done but rather what is to be done ought to be developed with an eye towards developing new liturgies for the church.

Bishops can think that. The canons say otherwise.

Any thoughts on likely next papal names?

When in Rome . . .