My daughters, my son, I can teach you to be ambitious, educated and strive for more, so that you can provide for your future families. I will not do it though. I would much rather teach you how to get by on less; how to go without; how to be happy with basic necessities of life. Possessions can be lost and there is no such thing as true financial security in this world. This is not an excuse to be lazy; this is a treatise against worldly success and ambitions. You were created to labour, but also to enjoy some leisure and above all, to love. Do not therefore lose yourselves in a false idea that you must always be productive. You don't but you do have to love and pray always. Families can live in small houses, and even with other family members. Your future children don't necessarily need seperate bedrooms – look how you share rooms and fill them with endless laughter! You don't need many clothing items, a huge pile of shoes, latest gadgets and everything else the world is desperate to sell you. Don't hate work, my children, but do it for the love of God and to provide for what is needed. Give away freely if you have more. Your security is in God, do you think He will ever abandon you or allow you to starve? My son, be a good, hard-working man who knows when to take a break. Do not forget that God is ultimately the one who provides. Lean on Him with your whole heart. My daughters, stay home with your children as long as you can. Work if you're facing abject poverty, just like your poor great-grandmothers worked in the fields or knitted clothes to sell them, but try to work from home. Always be with your children and teach them what I taught you: how to live on little but love a lot. We need to earn our bread, but we don't need to earn 10 loaves to waste them. Be a good Catholic and God will give you whatever you need.

Ugh, I have again acquired too much of a taste for arguing with people online. It can only be a sign of pride. Time to log off, see you all next weekend 🙏❤️

Timeline cleanse. This world still carries the scent of Jesus.

The Vatican is its own country. The pope's prudential opinions can be very wrong but so is your geography. Also, aren't you the one supposedly fighting for countries to be sovereign and yet, here you are, demanding that the citizens of a sovereign country be overrun by citizens of another country? Sounds a lot like you support illegal migration in fact. The irony!

I have been married for quite some time now and I don't have any single friends. I don't know much about modern "dating" but I have seen some discourse about it here on Catholic Twitter. Let me say this clearly: what porn has done to men, romantic films and novels have done to women. A lot has been said about the dangers of porn, spiritual and otherwise. I'd like to talk about the dangers of romance. As we all know, porn has given men a twisted, perverted view of the conjugal act. Similarly, romantic films and novels have given women a twisted and disordered view of courting and marriage. I am sure that secular women would all disagree but I don't care much. I am primarily addressing young Catholic women here. The only reason why young Catholic women should "date" or more properly said, engage in courtship, should be to get married. Serial monogamy, having "boyfriends" or romantic affairs, being in a" relationship" for the sake of it - all of this goes against the core tenets of Catholicism. It is not fun; it is not normal; it endangers souls and further erodes the meaning of marriage. The same goes for "flirting". What is flirting anyway? The way I understand the word, it entails inciting lust in someone. As such, it is a grave sin. Why would an unmarried Catholic woman endanger the soul of someone she likes? Why would she endanger the soul of anyone including staining her own soul with a serious sin? Why would she want to turn herself into an occasion of sin? For a bit of fun? I've seen Catholic women on here compare their first dates with job interviews simply because the men they had dinner with wanted to understand how truly Catholic they are and how they view marriage as well as child-rearing. This is such an unjust, unfair and poorly thought out statement bases on the women's personal desire to experience "chemistry" (whatever that word might truly mean). Let's examine this a bit more. What is a job interview? It is a process in which a stranger who has no interest in the good of your soul, your future/present children or family, spending time with you or helping you get to heaven, merely wants to ascertain how much monetary or practical value you can provide for their company. I personally believe that this in itself is sinful but the modern job hiring process is not something I will get into here. I only touch upon it to the degree the comparison has been used among unmarried Catholic women. What is a proper Catholic courting/date? It's the exact opposite of job interviews. It's a person who is invested in their own salvation as well as in the salvation of others trying to find a future spouse who shares this sentiment. The two people who court should also both be eager to find out how the other party intends to raise potential future children. The inverted order of romance-first-and-figuring-out-the-important-stuff-later endangers souls, leads to heartbreak and and is a huge waste of time. Marriage isn't about fun although it can entail fun times (similar to how the primary end of the conjugal act isn't pleasure although it is often accompanied by pleasure). We need to get our priorities in order. Marriage is about child-rearing and getting to heaven. These are not the only benefits of marriage but they are its ultimate goals and the very reason for its existence. If marriage is about having children and getting to heaven, then "dating" is in fact a serious business, not some light-hearted romantic adventure. And romantic feelings can come and develop; they are not wrong per se. But seeking them over and above the end goal of courtships and marriage is disordered. And for Catholic women to insult men who take courtships seriously is honestly disgusting. If what you want most is romance and fun, then at least have enough decency not to date serious Catholic guys. Do not insult and ridicule good Catholic men simply because they want to know what parish you go to and whether you plan to be a stay-at-home mum.

This is excellent! Credit where credit is due. The pope should still pay more attention to the citizens of countries that take in large amounts of migrants. But this statement is good nonetheless.

Let me make one thing perfectly clear: I am a Catholic who accepts pope Leo XIV as the pope. I believe everything that Pastor Aeternus teaches about papacy applies to the current pope as well. Pope Leo XIV maintains the absolute primacy of governing the Church. This primacy does not depend on how prudent the pope is. This is why I reject the idea of any group consecrating bishops against the pope's explicit warnings. Pope Leo also maintains the primacy of teaching and in particular, the charism of infallibility when proper conditions are met. This, of course, presupposes that there are times when the pope isn't infallible. Pope Leo XIV can therefore err especially in his speeches, homilies or tweets, and especially when he is addressing prudential matters. I have an utmost respect for the chair of St. Peter. Without the papacy, the Catholic Church would not exist. Our Lord explicitly willed the papacy. Because of this respect, I reject any notion that my own argumented criticisms of papal tweets should lead anyone towards the idea of Sedevacantism, the heresy of conciliarism, the idea of deposing the pope or disobeying his decisions in the realm of Church governance. They should also not lead anyone to reject Catholicism because Catholicism is true whether or not the members of the hierarchy and us laity constantly fail up to live to Our Lord's standards. Lastly, I do not attribute to pope Leo any malicious intentions. I believe his naivety is the combination of many factors including the influence of the liberation theology on the hierarchy, the errors of modernism and post-modernism, as well as a very abstract view of evil. I do believe pope Leo XIV is influenced also by the time he spent serving the poor. From personal experience, poverty isn't fun although I believe it is more beneficial to human nature than wealth. I experienced poverty after the end of the war in my country. I can understand why someone would be deeply affected seeing the poor struggle. It's not very romantic, quite the opposite. The problem is not in developing a special bond to the poor. The problem is when the central warfare of good versus evil is replaced by the dichotomy between the poor and the not poor. In this worldview, the poor have replaced the good and the not poor have replaced the evil. Within such framework, the words of the pope make a lot of sense. The problem is that such a framework is false and based on sentimentalism. The amount of material possessions does not determine whether or not the person in question is on the side of evil or good. I agree with the pope when he speaks against human trafficking or in general, about the duty to help the poor. I do not agree that this helps entails opening the doors of our countries and homes to whoever claims poverty. I agree that we should not treat migrants, even illegal ones, like rabid dogs. Defending oneself sometimes requires violence and force, but when it doesn't, we shouldn't use violence simply as a means of revenge or to vent our frustration. Lastly, let us all prioritize souls, both our own and those of the migrants. Pray for their conversion and make sure that the very realistic dangers and fears of mass migrations do not lead you to sin. Controversial opinion to both sides of the political spectrum but one that I as Catholic maintain is this: it is better to be beheaded that to commit a single mortal sin. Protect your family, protect your country, but above all else, protect your soul. Eternity matters. This here shall pass.

This is what happens when you stop believing in evil as a reality and start viewing it as something merely abstract. In other words, this is what happens when the only evil you recognize is poverty. Unbaptized Christian-hating enemies become "brothers and sisters". The horror at the thought of unconverted souls going to hell is replaced by worrying merely about their physical wellbeing. The stranger is being put before your own kin simply because the stranger claims poverty. Well-founded fears of your actual brothers and sisters are being dismissed. Their suffering means nothing because they apparently have better economic opportunities. To you, poverty has replaced sin as the greatest enemy of souls. You cannot imagine evil actually existing in people. The only evil you see is not letting anyone go wherever they want in order for them to earn more money. You don't believe in violent ideologies, demonic religions and uncivilized communities. This is why you have a hard time understanding why others won't just open their doors and let strangers sleep in the same house with their sons and daughters. Your preoccupation with the idea of human dignity being wholly dependent on one's material circumstances endangers the lives of your spiritual children. Still, this is something you cannot believe because to you, those who do not struggle with abject poverty should have nothing to complain about. Our Lord told us to help those in need. He never said to endanger our children in order to do so. Even the good Samaritan failed to invite the stranger into his house. Instead, he helped him and sent him on his way, as it should be. Muslims should be converted, not given free housing and mosques to practice their false, dangerous religion in. The actual tragedy isn't people dying while illegally trying to access other countries. The actual tragedy is those people dying unbaptized while Christian girls in Europe are being raped and disabled men being beheaded.

Thank you so much! God bless you 🙏🙏🙏

Will you please pray for me? I am dealing with many troubles, some of my own making. Many are already praying for me, but tonight I need fervent prayers. I am unsure of what to do. I know one thing. I need to go offline. I do have many friends here so I won't leave but I will cut down my Internet use to weekends only. Not just Twitter, but my Telegram and everything else. With zero false humility and self-pity, I have made mistakes and failed in my duties lately. I am not sure how to correct some of my failures. I also don't know how much my prayers merit because I haven't walked the walk in a while. I am sure that many of my friends here are more righteous than me so I truly count on your prayers. I will check here to like or reply to your replies but I will then set my phone aside until the weekend. May God be merciful to all of us, we need Him more than we realize.

I came back to ask for prayers. I have a friend whom I love dearly but who has been suffering lately. He's grown weary of dealing with many troubles. In your charity, please please pray for my friend. Pray that he sees better days very quickly. Pray that his strength, faith and hope increase. Pray that Our Lady comforts him and Our Lord grants him joy. He is an amazing person and I just want to see him happy.

Had enough Twitter for a while. God bless you all, see you in a week or so.

Isn't it fitting that on the Feast of Corpus Christi the evil of abortion is put on display for all to finally get off the fence? There are no exceptions. No special cases that allow for murder. No leniency and sympathy for those who butcher and dismember their children. The decision to abort is not a difficult decision, it's an evil one. You're not a poor tortured parent if you abort, you are a monster who should be given life in prison or the death penalty. The sicker the baby you kill, the harsher your punishment should be. The world without Christ is the world in which people dismember their sick children, monetize their monstrosity and then pretend that it was a horribly difficult decision they had to make. Come Lord Jesus, Maranatha 🙏

In your charity, please pray for Sam, his family and his medical team 🙏

"This week, my wife and I made the very difficult decision of murdering our own innocent child. The choice was not made lightly but we still proceeded to butcher our baby. We appreciate the support of all other baby murderers out there. Here is some statistics that we hope can make us look more sympathetic *proceeds to list problems that Down Syndrome babies might encounter* My wife is on the mend, thankfully. The butchering only killed the baby, as we intended. We are devastated because we thought that you can just kill your child and feel free. Turns out we need other baby killers to convince us that we did the right thing, which is why I'm writing this novel. Thank you all so much for thinking that people with Down Syndrome deserve to be dismembered, even if they are your own children. We need your voices to numb our conscience further."

RT @joesales: Last weekend, I had an accident (fall) which landed me in the hospital. My mobility has been affected. Surgery scheduled for…

It always comes down to this.

"Dogs eat their own vomit. Dogs exist in nature. Therefore, sodomy is natural." I beg everyone to finally learn what "natural" means and to stop comparing themselves to animals. I love dogs but I would never copy them.

Over the last couple of years, I have become convinced that one cannot be a good Thomist without being a good Franciscan and vice versa. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Francis of Assisi were God's gifts to the Church. The former was the gift of the truth, the latter the gift of the Christian charity. Since truth without charity is nothing but cruelty, and charity without truth nothing but deception, so too do Thomistic and Franciscan spiritualities perfectly work together. If a Thomist is not in a way a Franciscan as well, he risks turning pure Thomism into an askewed intellectual exercise that forgets God as its ultimate end. Similarly, if a Franciscan is not in a way a Thomist as well, he risks turning Saint Francis into a modern hippy. Saint Thomas was more Franciscan than we realize and Saint Francis more of a Thomist than we give him credit. Both of them admired Creation for the sake of Creator and both exhibited deep humility in all they did. If you're a Thomist, take some time to look into the life of St. Francis of Assisi. If you're a Franciscan, read about St. Thomas's life and work. I personally cannot decide which one of the two saints is my favourite.