Adam Rasmussen
@chrysologus.bsky.social
PhD in historical theology from CUA. Author of Genesis and Cosmos: Basil and Origen on Genesis 1 and Cosmology. Father, teacher, nerd.
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Adam Rasmussen
@chrysologus.bsky.social
· Sep 30
Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...
Pope Leo criticizes 'inhuman' treatment of immigrants in US
Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.
www.reuters.com
The consistent ethic of life has been official Catholic doctrine for many years (see, e.g., the encyclical Fratelli Tutti), so what Pope Leo said isn't surprising or new. However, many American Catholics have been convinced (often by online groups) that it's unorthodox. That needs to change.
BlueSky hasn't panned out the way I hoped one year ago. Follow me back on X if you want: x.com/rasmussen_25...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
BlueSky hasn't panned out the way I hoped one year ago. Follow me back on X if you want: x.com/rasmussen_25...
"Evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends the good more eminently, since good things yield greater pleasure and praise when compared to the bad things. For the Omnipotent God would not allow any evil in his works unless he is able to bring forth good out of evil." — Augustine
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Evil, when it is rightly ordered and kept in its place, commends the good more eminently, since good things yield greater pleasure and praise when compared to the bad things. For the Omnipotent God would not allow any evil in his works unless he is able to bring forth good out of evil." — Augustine
Synodality, listening, dialogue, fraternity, and parrhesia "will enable us to live with confidence and a new spirit amid the tensions that run through the life of the Church: between unity and diversity, tradition and novelty, authority and participation."
www.americamagazine.org/speeches/202...
www.americamagazine.org/speeches/202...
October 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Synodality, listening, dialogue, fraternity, and parrhesia "will enable us to live with confidence and a new spirit amid the tensions that run through the life of the Church: between unity and diversity, tradition and novelty, authority and participation."
www.americamagazine.org/speeches/202...
www.americamagazine.org/speeches/202...
I don't care whether a priest is conservative or liberal, as long as he's pastoral and synodal, does the works of mercy, and teaches the full social doctrine as taught in papal documents.
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I don't care whether a priest is conservative or liberal, as long as he's pastoral and synodal, does the works of mercy, and teaches the full social doctrine as taught in papal documents.
"Liz Bucar, a professor of religion, said it's clear the syncretic, ad hoc, New Age approach to spirituality by some older generations 'has not been satisfying to Zoomers.' She is seeing a desire for more structured community and moral frameworks that can help Zoomers navigate a suffering world."
"It's sort of like a pyramid scheme for Jesus," Kolarik joked.
Is there religious revival among Gen Z?
There’s a swell in Christian devotion at the University of Pittsburgh amid claims of national revival, but some researchers say 'revival' is too strong a word.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Liz Bucar, a professor of religion, said it's clear the syncretic, ad hoc, New Age approach to spirituality by some older generations 'has not been satisfying to Zoomers.' She is seeing a desire for more structured community and moral frameworks that can help Zoomers navigate a suffering world."
"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty."
– Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love for the Poor, 14
– Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love for the Poor, 14
October 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty."
– Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love for the Poor, 14
– Pope Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te on Love for the Poor, 14
This article really clearly lays out, plain as day, why Pope Francis put restrictions on the old Latin Mass and why Pope Leo is also concerned about how the traditionalist movement threatens the Church's unity.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass
Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...
wherepeteris.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This article really clearly lays out, plain as day, why Pope Francis put restrictions on the old Latin Mass and why Pope Leo is also concerned about how the traditionalist movement threatens the Church's unity.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
I've experienced four popes, and I've never *not* looked forward to a new papal document. Catholics should be receptive to the papal magisterium even if we may sometimes struggle in our consciences with some particular teaching. We have a pope for a reason: it's part of the genius of Catholicism!
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I've experienced four popes, and I've never *not* looked forward to a new papal document. Catholics should be receptive to the papal magisterium even if we may sometimes struggle in our consciences with some particular teaching. We have a pope for a reason: it's part of the genius of Catholicism!
Reposted by Adam Rasmussen
Lirerally—
He described a consistent ethic of life derived from Gaudium et Spes and affirmed by John Paul II, authoritative magisterial teaching, and named a climate crisis named by both JP2 and Benedict XVI.
His critics are not serious people.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/e...
He described a consistent ethic of life derived from Gaudium et Spes and affirmed by John Paul II, authoritative magisterial teaching, and named a climate crisis named by both JP2 and Benedict XVI.
His critics are not serious people.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/e...
Pope Leo faces MAGA ire after immigration and climate change remarks | CNN
Pope Leo XIV has adopted a more low-key, less combative style to his predecessor in the early months of his papacy. Pope Francis’s openness to the LGBTQ community, advocacy for migrants and critiques ...
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Lirerally—
He described a consistent ethic of life derived from Gaudium et Spes and affirmed by John Paul II, authoritative magisterial teaching, and named a climate crisis named by both JP2 and Benedict XVI.
His critics are not serious people.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/e...
He described a consistent ethic of life derived from Gaudium et Spes and affirmed by John Paul II, authoritative magisterial teaching, and named a climate crisis named by both JP2 and Benedict XVI.
His critics are not serious people.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/e...
"This episode has brought to light a serious rupture in the US Church. Collegiality and fraternity have given way to hostility and open conflict."
wherepeteris.com/bishops-agai...
wherepeteris.com/bishops-agai...
Bishops against Cardinal: The Plan to Censure Cupich
The controversy surrounding the Archdiocese of Chicago’s plan to honor Senator Dick Durbin has rapidly escalated from a local dispute into a revealing test of the internal dynamics of the U.S. hierarc...
wherepeteris.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"This episode has brought to light a serious rupture in the US Church. Collegiality and fraternity have given way to hostility and open conflict."
wherepeteris.com/bishops-agai...
wherepeteris.com/bishops-agai...
The consistent ethic of life has been official Catholic doctrine for many years (see, e.g., the encyclical Fratelli Tutti), so what Pope Leo said isn't surprising or new. However, many American Catholics have been convinced (often by online groups) that it's unorthodox. That needs to change.
Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...
Pope Leo criticizes 'inhuman' treatment of immigrants in US
Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.
www.reuters.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The consistent ethic of life has been official Catholic doctrine for many years (see, e.g., the encyclical Fratelli Tutti), so what Pope Leo said isn't surprising or new. However, many American Catholics have been convinced (often by online groups) that it's unorthodox. That needs to change.
"Happy are those whose conscience does not reproach them,
those who have not lost hope."
- Ben Sira 14:2
those who have not lost hope."
- Ben Sira 14:2
September 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Happy are those whose conscience does not reproach them,
those who have not lost hope."
- Ben Sira 14:2
those who have not lost hope."
- Ben Sira 14:2
Just horrendous that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Our society is so sick right now, and this heinous crime will only make it sicker. And sadly I know that some people will try to justify it or at least wink at it. Violence is not the solution to our current social crisis!
September 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Just horrendous that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Our society is so sick right now, and this heinous crime will only make it sicker. And sadly I know that some people will try to justify it or at least wink at it. Violence is not the solution to our current social crisis!
I very much would like to see the clunky 2011 translation of the Mass fixed.
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It's time for a better English translation of the liturgy
The people of God deserve better than what they are hearing in church today, writes Fr. Thomas Reese.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I very much would like to see the clunky 2011 translation of the Mass fixed.
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"Injustice, violations of international law & the rights of peoples, grave inequalities & the greed that fuels them are spawning deforestation, pollution & the loss of biodiversity. Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity grow..."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Message of the Holy Father on the occasion of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [1 September 2025] (30 June 2025)
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV FOR THE 10 th WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION 2025 [1 September 2025] ________________________________
www.vatican.va
August 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"Injustice, violations of international law & the rights of peoples, grave inequalities & the greed that fuels them are spawning deforestation, pollution & the loss of biodiversity. Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity grow..."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
“We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war. My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible, a world of fraternity and friendship.” - Pope Leo
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo: We are with the young people of Gaza, Ukraine and war-torn lands - Vatican News
At the conclusion of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of Youth, Pope Leo remembers young people suffering
www.vaticannews.va
August 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
“We are with the young people of Gaza. We are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war. My young brothers and sisters, you are the sign that a different world is possible, a world of fraternity and friendship.” - Pope Leo
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
The immorality and evil of Netanyahu's war—which long ago exceeded a just defense—is staggering.
www.nytimes.com/article/isra...
www.nytimes.com/article/isra...
What to Know About Starvation in Gaza and Deadly Violence Near Aid Sites
www.nytimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The immorality and evil of Netanyahu's war—which long ago exceeded a just defense—is staggering.
www.nytimes.com/article/isra...
www.nytimes.com/article/isra...
Batman #40 (exactly ten years ago!): the Caped Crusader as St. George
July 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Batman #40 (exactly ten years ago!): the Caped Crusader as St. George
My reaction when CBS assures us that cancelling Colbert has nothing to do with anything.
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a framed painting .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a framed painting .
media.tenor.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My reaction when CBS assures us that cancelling Colbert has nothing to do with anything.
People sometimes ask who made God. The answer is no one. "God is subsisting Being itself" (Aquinas, S.Th.1, q4, a2). Or, as theologian Paul Tillich put it, God is "the ground of every being." God isn't a thing in the world: God is the answer to the question why something exists rather than nothing.
July 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
People sometimes ask who made God. The answer is no one. "God is subsisting Being itself" (Aquinas, S.Th.1, q4, a2). Or, as theologian Paul Tillich put it, God is "the ground of every being." God isn't a thing in the world: God is the answer to the question why something exists rather than nothing.
President Eisenhower warning about demagoguery and intimidation on May 31, 1954 (in response to McCarthy).
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
July 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
President Eisenhower warning about demagoguery and intimidation on May 31, 1954 (in response to McCarthy).
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
"The bill, as passed, will cause the greatest harm to those who are especially vulnerable in our society... People will lose access to healthcare and struggle to buy groceries, family members will be separated." - Abp. Broglio, president of U.S. Bishops Conference
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
U.S. Bishops’ President Reacts to Passage of One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Reacting to the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Archbishop Broglio, president of the USCCB, lamented the great harm the bill will cause to many of...
www.usccb.org
July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"The bill, as passed, will cause the greatest harm to those who are especially vulnerable in our society... People will lose access to healthcare and struggle to buy groceries, family members will be separated." - Abp. Broglio, president of U.S. Bishops Conference
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
“Where a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened.” - Pope Leo XIV
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Pope Leo delivers fiery defense of freedom of the press, supports Peru journalists
In a message of support sent to journalists in Peru who have faced backlash and judicial harassment for their reporting on a now-suppressed lay group, Pope Leo XIV hailed freedom of the press as key t...
cruxnow.com
June 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Where a journalist is silenced, the democratic soul of a country is weakened.” - Pope Leo XIV
cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...
How the hell did John Hughes make so many great movies?
June 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
How the hell did John Hughes make so many great movies?