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Epifanio De Moirans Respecter

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disco linguam Latinam et linguam Graecam, also interested in historical Catholic anti-racism

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A fun day in History of the Papacy. One of the big points I tried to make today is that the rejection of some of the liberal ideals in these encyclicals is not the rejection of an abstraction, but a concrete encounter with violent proponents of those ideals who said their

A fun day in History of the Papacy. One of the big points I tried to make today is that the rejection of some of the liberal ideals in these encyclicals is not the rejection of an abstraction, but a concrete encounter with violent proponents of those ideals who said their
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violence was on account of those ideals. It is silly to imagine that one can lift themselves entirely out of their historical circumstances. As the popes gain some critical distance from the French revolution, the rise of Italian nationalism, etc, they begin to see what can be

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affirmed and what must be denied. My hope here is to undermine any desire to do what I call "CTRL + F" theology -- the theological discipline is not simply finding a bunch of phrases that affirm what you want and calling it a day.

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Are there any good historical equivalents to the “but abortion” whataboutism used whenever the church seems to criticize conservatives?

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Whenever the “convert=weird freak and cradle=chill and normal” discourse comes up I think about how Epifanio de Moirans would be considered convert-coded and the slavers who tried to get him excommunicated would be considered cradle-coded

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Tolkien’s widowed mother defied social convention by converting to Catholicism; her sister who converted with her was forced to abandon her new faith by her husband

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If you needed evidence that The Camp of the Saints is racist garbage and not “just asking questions about immigration” or whatever

If you needed evidence that The Camp of the Saints is racist garbage and not “just asking questions about immigration” or whatever
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I used to think this was insightful but now think it’s kind of dangerous (Catholicism is associated with Italy, but it’s not merely an Italian religion)