Dr. Brian Flanagan
@brianpflanagan.bsky.social
Cardinal Cody Chair of Catholic Theology@Loyola University Chicago, Senior Fellow at New Ways Ministry🏳️🌈, he/him, knitter, fifer. Views my own. Repost≠endorsement. Author of _Stumbling in Holiness: Sin and Sanctity in the Church_.
Listening to Catholic Theological Union professor (and @loyolachicago.bsky.social Theology alum) Dr Kevin Considine give the Luzbetak Lecture on mission and “orthopathema,” the work of “suffering rightly”
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Listening to Catholic Theological Union professor (and @loyolachicago.bsky.social Theology alum) Dr Kevin Considine give the Luzbetak Lecture on mission and “orthopathema,” the work of “suffering rightly”
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
September 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Show me an image on your phone that has your energy but is not a selfie.
Really great to see Jesuit mission and identity being foregrounded as the first main presentation of the day. 👏👏👏
August 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Really great to see Jesuit mission and identity being foregrounded as the first main presentation of the day. 👏👏👏
First day of new faculty orientation at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. Decided to cosplay as a Jesuit.
August 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
First day of new faculty orientation at @loyolachicago.bsky.social. Decided to cosplay as a Jesuit.
I don’t need a lububu. (Thanks to Francis DeBernardo for the new Ignatius of Loyola to hang out with Francis…)
August 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I don’t need a lububu. (Thanks to Francis DeBernardo for the new Ignatius of Loyola to hang out with Francis…)
Oh my goodness, that’s praise from Caesar Matt. I’d prob pick one of these two:
July 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Oh my goodness, that’s praise from Caesar Matt. I’d prob pick one of these two:
Happy 250th Rhode Island Independence Day! God save Rhode Island!
May 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Happy 250th Rhode Island Independence Day! God save Rhode Island!
Just had my last chance at midday Mass to pray "with Wilton our bishop." Thank you to Wilton Gregory for your service to the Church and your ministry here in the Archdiocese of Washington.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just had my last chance at midday Mass to pray "with Wilton our bishop." Thank you to Wilton Gregory for your service to the Church and your ministry here in the Archdiocese of Washington.
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It’s beginning to look like Lent at my local Safeway.
March 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s beginning to look like Lent at my local Safeway.
On this special day, would you like to create a new script with me, that will eventually be replaced by a better script but still named after you? 😘
February 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
On this special day, would you like to create a new script with me, that will eventually be replaced by a better script but still named after you? 😘
I love using Too Good To Go, but this one is pretty grim.
January 31, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I love using Too Good To Go, but this one is pretty grim.
Happy feast day.
January 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Happy feast day.
I’m speaking Tuesday afternoon at Chapman University on LGBTQ+ Catholic narratives as a source for the sensus fidelium. Join us on zoom at chapman.zoom.us/j/97152008664
January 27, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I’m speaking Tuesday afternoon at Chapman University on LGBTQ+ Catholic narratives as a source for the sensus fidelium. Join us on zoom at chapman.zoom.us/j/97152008664
Nolite timere: ecce enim evangelizo vobis gaudium magnum, quod erit omni populo!
December 25, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Nolite timere: ecce enim evangelizo vobis gaudium magnum, quod erit omni populo!
Ht to Christopher White at @ncronline.bsky.social - Pope Francis has clarified that the Final Document of the synod “participates in the ordinary magisterium of the Successor of Peter.” Some points 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Ht to Christopher White at @ncronline.bsky.social - Pope Francis has clarified that the Final Document of the synod “participates in the ordinary magisterium of the Successor of Peter.” Some points 🧵
Happy feast of being freaked out by your children’s Bible!
August 29, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Happy feast of being freaked out by your children’s Bible!
The one upside to no longer having a tenured position - it's August 2nd and I'm not working on syllabi.
August 2, 2023 at 7:46 PM
The one upside to no longer having a tenured position - it's August 2nd and I'm not working on syllabi.
"My job is Church"
July 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM
"My job is Church"
Reskeet with a banger pic of your dog
July 29, 2023 at 2:08 PM
Reskeet with a banger pic of your dog
Happy feast of St James!
July 25, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Happy feast of St James!
Started life on BlueSky exactly as you could have predicted - a happy post, a snarky post, and a profile pic of my dog.
July 24, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Started life on BlueSky exactly as you could have predicted - a happy post, a snarky post, and a profile pic of my dog.