"Paul VI called Vatican II 'Newman's Council'": Is this documented or an urban legend?
Bridget O’Brien
@bridgetemob.bsky.social
Philadelphian, Chicagoan, Catholic lay minister • she | her “And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:”
Very narrowly avoided accidentally sending an email about the "White Sox Pope Hate Giveaway."
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterdayThe "saying" at the start of the quoted paragraph seems to just be a quote from a 2020 book written by an "alpha coach" and supplement salesman and I'm going to go out on a limb and make the bold claim that Simone de Beauvoir is more worthy of engaging on the topic of gender than that dude.
Stephen@stephenwaldron.bsky.social · yesterdayI was giving this progressive defense of "masculinity" a chance, but now that I've gotten to the part that explicitly says that men should disregard what lesbians think of them... That's just misogyny. It's almost a definition of misogyny.
I have been thinking about my father much more than normal lately, and I do not know why that is! But at least once a day anymore, and often more than that, I have to tell myself not to talk about him.
Yes I have enough of an ego to do this.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
Sometimes, you’re pleased with your outfit and you’re having a great hair day… and then you trip and plant directly on your face leaving your front door.
Me: Hi hello I need to buy a large number of gift cards. Store manger: We have a limit of X / day which cannot be overridden. Me: Can I buy them online? SM: No. Me: I work for a church; these are for families we accompany. Is there any way for me to buy Y gift cards by next week?
I am often curious about the percentage of people active in Christian Bluesky whose spiritual autobiographies include some major conversion experience—be that being “born again,” formally converting, or being received into a church as an adult—vs average churchgoers.
Ian is the Priest-King of the Sacred Grove at Nemi@poetinbabylon.bsky.social · 2d agoplaying around with this and I think they’re using “born again” / “not born again” to get around the fact that evangelicals don’t always self identify as evangelicals — but me and so many of my friends *are* in fact “born again” Mainliners???
Sermons that bum me out: 1. Here are some academic thoughts about the Scripture but they don't actually, like, matter 2. Here is what you are doing wrong, it's probably about sex or how you dress 3. When you think about it, all that really matters to being nice like you learned in kindergarten
Jordan Haynie Ware@godwelcomesall.bsky.social · 2d agoGod is the interesting thing about the church!
More Thoughts On Scripture Reflections generated by my Monday email backlog: I have said it before; I will say it again: DO NOT START REFLECTIONS OR SERMONS OR HOMILIES BY TALKING ABOUT YOUR WRITING PROCESS. I don't care!! I do not care. In no way does it open up the Word. Save it for your diary!
Bridget O’Brien@bridgetemob.bsky.social · 2d agoChecking my work email on Monday means clicking through a half-dozen reflections on yesterday's Mass readings from various Catholic email subscriptions and I just do not understand the iron-tight hold "the REAL miracle was everyone sharing the food they'd brought" has on people.
Checking my work email on Monday means clicking through a half-dozen reflections on yesterday's Mass readings from various Catholic email subscriptions and I just do not understand the iron-tight hold "the REAL miracle was everyone sharing the food they'd brought" has on people.
There are some foods that make my cat lose ALL control—he will fight me (literally) tooth and nail for them—and the most frustrating experience in the world is giving him a little piece and finding he is TOTALLY uninterested in what I have provided, for only the full serving I eat will do.
I have made myself very sad by reading something, and so I will box up all of my emotions and tape the box heavily and put the box on a shelf in a cupboard I never plan to open again; surely this will work.
I am not an MCU hater—they’re not high art, but I like a popcorn flick, what can I say—and I enjoyed Spider Man but, woooof, you really do have to watch & remember too much, and it is Annoying. “Wow, I don’t remember Frank at all.” Oh that’s bc he’s from a TV show I never watched.
Look I’m just grateful that neither of the bishops who follow me are bishops in my own church.
One of my parishioners says this is legit, so I think it’s legit. (The parishioner is Peter Brown) www.fox5ny.com/news/newly-d...
Newly discovered St. Augustine sermons offer fresh insight into early Christian theology
Two previously unknown sermons by St. Augustine have been authenticated after being discovered in a 12th-century medieval manuscript, offering scholars new insight into one of Christianity's most infl...
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I live close to Grant Park and this is exactly my plan.
The Onion@theonion.com · 5d agoChicagoans Over 25 Urged To Shelter In Place Until Lollapalooza Over
I am 100 percent more likely to attend an event advertised like this than if it had a ChatGPT poster
John Herreid@herreidjohn.bsky.social · 5d agoSobbing and clutching the flyer we just received for a neighborhood event. It’s entirely in comic sans and appears to have been created in Word. It’s just so beautiful. A lost art, still breathing today
Just read a transcript of a Fresh Air interview with the author of a book about the Catholic Church, and, man. It truly is remarkable just how low the bar can be for "accurate facts about the subject of your book."
Does the language of "non-negotiables" have a life in Catholic theology outside the context of US politics? BXVI used "These values are not negotiable" (Sacramentum Caritatis), which is connected but not identical.
Footnotes need not be merely useful informative and elaborative references, they can also be carefully placed sacramental signs of the deeper places where the noted discussion actually comes from. Or did I only imagine this, possibly after too much coffee?
I FULLY recognize that I am not a normal person; I am the outlier here—but one of the things I truly do not understand about gen AI use for writing is that I truly love re-reading something I have written, and I cannot imagine robbing myself of that pleasure.
I don’t want to do a whole “everyone process their feelings about covid on main” thing (it’s not healthy for me!), but the height of the pandemic was a time I was very conscious of distance from my able-to-work-remotely friends on the left.
I am a tax-and-spend liberal and I do not understand why I am paying federal taxes these days; taxes are not spoils through which our money gets redistributed to those who politically support Trump.
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
I went off slightly in this week's bulletin reflection about "not counting women and children," but also, I didn't want to talk JUST about that and my word limit is 520, so... we'll see how what I did lands.
you TURN AROUND to look for eurydice? you turn around like the bonnie tyler song? oh! oh! lonely wandering for orpheus! lonely wandering for orpheus for One Thousand Years!!!!
Bridget O’Brien@bridgetemob.bsky.social · 7d agoJust saw the Hadestown proshot currently in movie theaters for the second time in less than a week and somehow it did not end differently???? It was still a sad song?? still a tragedy????
Just saw the Hadestown proshot currently in movie theaters for the second time in less than a week and somehow it did not end differently???? It was still a sad song?? still a tragedy????