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

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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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly @mollieoreilly.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 1h

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

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

Listening and learning

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

Listening and learning

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

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

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

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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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

He does something that can only be described as "going beast mode" in the last third.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

Also this was hilarious

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

I think the work done here to demonstrate that the "Church of the poor" is the most authentically "traditional" expression of the faith is really good and shrewd

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 3h

I quite like Dilexit Te. I found it forceful and encouraging. I think there will be a lot of people waving away parts of it as a Francis document.

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 13h

When I was a kid veggie tales was officially disallowed in my denomination because it "mocks the word of God"

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you!

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 14h

I'm trying to weed out insincerity. join me, friends, in meaning what we say

Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 14h

"You damage the linguistic community with your every word? congrats!"

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 14h

"You damage the linguistic community with your every word? congrats!"

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 15h

I'm in a class on Milton and his contemporaries and Noticing Trends

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 15h

I could just do a library search but I trust some of you nerds have a particular favorite

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 16h

age gaps of that sort are unremarkable in the cabinet

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Irenic Bro @irenicbro.bsky.social · 18h

I think B is true in some cases but in my experience less so with a lot of rural Catholics

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