Scott Smith
@hf222222.bsky.social
I am not a Theologian, nor do I play one on the Internet. reducedculpability.wordpress.com https://www.ncregister.com/author/scott-smith
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The political outrage machine, is really running on fumes under Leo, to be angry about this lol.
Oh noes, a Catholic priest blessed some water, totally not a thing every one of them does weekly.
Oh noes, a Catholic priest blessed some water, totally not a thing every one of them does weekly.
October 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The political outrage machine, is really running on fumes under Leo, to be angry about this lol.
Oh noes, a Catholic priest blessed some water, totally not a thing every one of them does weekly.
Oh noes, a Catholic priest blessed some water, totally not a thing every one of them does weekly.
After being hung out to dry by Pope Leo in respect of his inconsistency, Cupich has beat an embarrassing retreat, but its worth noting his whining here would suggest Bishop Barron could justly give JD Vance an award for fighting against gender ideology.
www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
October 1, 2025 at 1:22 AM
After being hung out to dry by Pope Leo in respect of his inconsistency, Cupich has beat an embarrassing retreat, but its worth noting his whining here would suggest Bishop Barron could justly give JD Vance an award for fighting against gender ideology.
www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
www.archchicago.org/en/statement...
Also, this argument was full of shit before Dobbs, since as Pope Leo recently reminded an unjust law is no law at all.
And its even dumber now the Supreme Court has held the US Constitution never did that.
And its even dumber now the Supreme Court has held the US Constitution never did that.
September 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Also, this argument was full of shit before Dobbs, since as Pope Leo recently reminded an unjust law is no law at all.
And its even dumber now the Supreme Court has held the US Constitution never did that.
And its even dumber now the Supreme Court has held the US Constitution never did that.
No person of any intellectual integrity, who cares even in the slightest for making a coherent argument, could put these two sentences together in the same article.
But here they are together.
But here they are together.
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No person of any intellectual integrity, who cares even in the slightest for making a coherent argument, could put these two sentences together in the same article.
But here they are together.
But here they are together.
I mean, we do say that, it was almost conventional to say in relation to e.g. Japanese kamikaze pilots.
CS Lewis also made this point in the Screwtape Letters.
CS Lewis also made this point in the Screwtape Letters.
September 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I mean, we do say that, it was almost conventional to say in relation to e.g. Japanese kamikaze pilots.
CS Lewis also made this point in the Screwtape Letters.
CS Lewis also made this point in the Screwtape Letters.
I've long known Teilhard de Chardin was a disgusting racist, but learning he thought this about my wife and daughters (proud Indigenous Australian women all), robs me of any remaining patience for his supporters today.
August 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I've long known Teilhard de Chardin was a disgusting racist, but learning he thought this about my wife and daughters (proud Indigenous Australian women all), robs me of any remaining patience for his supporters today.
Suggestions from Father Alejandro Moral Antón, O.S.A., Prior General of the Augustinians, that Pope Leo might be replacing many / most of his Curia Prefects after the Summer break.
www.ilmessaggero.it/en/a_glimpse...
www.ilmessaggero.it/en/a_glimpse...
July 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Suggestions from Father Alejandro Moral Antón, O.S.A., Prior General of the Augustinians, that Pope Leo might be replacing many / most of his Curia Prefects after the Summer break.
www.ilmessaggero.it/en/a_glimpse...
www.ilmessaggero.it/en/a_glimpse...
There are plenty of great Christian arguments for the secular state, but this dude managed to choose one so bad, it literally doesn't even pass as Christian.
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
May 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
There are plenty of great Christian arguments for the secular state, but this dude managed to choose one so bad, it literally doesn't even pass as Christian.
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
This both explains a lot about Francis' failures on clerical abuse, and reduces my hope its going to get better under Leo.
May 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This both explains a lot about Francis' failures on clerical abuse, and reduces my hope its going to get better under Leo.
Oh my, I'm not sure Cardinal Czerny could be worse for the chances of a progressive being elected Pope, if he was an agent provocateur planted by trads.
And he also wins the Cardinal Kasper award for this conclave's most publicly racist progressive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
And he also wins the Cardinal Kasper award for this conclave's most publicly racist progressive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
May 5, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Oh my, I'm not sure Cardinal Czerny could be worse for the chances of a progressive being elected Pope, if he was an agent provocateur planted by trads.
And he also wins the Cardinal Kasper award for this conclave's most publicly racist progressive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
And he also wins the Cardinal Kasper award for this conclave's most publicly racist progressive.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...
Holy crap, if the progressive wing of the Cardinals are all this bad at messaging, they are going to get sidelined so hard.
Imagine telling a periphery Cardinal unity can't be a priority?!?
www.business-standard.com/world-news/u...
Imagine telling a periphery Cardinal unity can't be a priority?!?
www.business-standard.com/world-news/u...
April 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Holy crap, if the progressive wing of the Cardinals are all this bad at messaging, they are going to get sidelined so hard.
Imagine telling a periphery Cardinal unity can't be a priority?!?
www.business-standard.com/world-news/u...
Imagine telling a periphery Cardinal unity can't be a priority?!?
www.business-standard.com/world-news/u...
This from the Germans is explicitly not blessings for individuals / couples, but of unions / relationships, & thus directly opposed to Fiducia Supplicans as clarified.
To release such dissent while the Pope was ill & dying is beneath contempt.
www.ncregister.com/cna/german-b...
To release such dissent while the Pope was ill & dying is beneath contempt.
www.ncregister.com/cna/german-b...
April 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This from the Germans is explicitly not blessings for individuals / couples, but of unions / relationships, & thus directly opposed to Fiducia Supplicans as clarified.
To release such dissent while the Pope was ill & dying is beneath contempt.
www.ncregister.com/cna/german-b...
To release such dissent while the Pope was ill & dying is beneath contempt.
www.ncregister.com/cna/german-b...
There are many unchangeable or irreversible things in the Church. But in preparing for a new Pope, its important to remember, trying to absolutize the contingent often ends badly.
This was Cardinal Bertone during JPII’s time for example. Don't be the Francis’ version of Bertone.
This was Cardinal Bertone during JPII’s time for example. Don't be the Francis’ version of Bertone.
April 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
There are many unchangeable or irreversible things in the Church. But in preparing for a new Pope, its important to remember, trying to absolutize the contingent often ends badly.
This was Cardinal Bertone during JPII’s time for example. Don't be the Francis’ version of Bertone.
This was Cardinal Bertone during JPII’s time for example. Don't be the Francis’ version of Bertone.
Was at the parish Easter Vigil, and noticed they were using the Chalice I gave with a dedication to my late grandmother, and now all I can think of is how I still miss her so very much.
April 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Was at the parish Easter Vigil, and noticed they were using the Chalice I gave with a dedication to my late grandmother, and now all I can think of is how I still miss her so very much.
Australian government modelling of the impact of Trump's tariffs on his own economy.
April 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Australian government modelling of the impact of Trump's tariffs on his own economy.
If it wasn't going to destroy countless lives, the deep stupidity of this would almost be funny.
He is going to engineer a deep US recession just to blow up US imports. Its insane.
He is going to engineer a deep US recession just to blow up US imports. Its insane.
April 7, 2025 at 2:54 AM
If it wasn't going to destroy countless lives, the deep stupidity of this would almost be funny.
He is going to engineer a deep US recession just to blow up US imports. Its insane.
He is going to engineer a deep US recession just to blow up US imports. Its insane.
The Trump presidency apparently.
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The Trump presidency apparently.
Remembering what alliances have always meant to Australia - That our allies never fight & die alone.
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
March 8, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Remembering what alliances have always meant to Australia - That our allies never fight & die alone.
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
I really wish the Pope's ghost writers would stop quoting the racist pseudo-scientific fraud Teilhard de Chardin.
Humanity's connection with all creation can be found all the way back to the patristic period - You don't need to cite a eugenicist as it's source.
Humanity's connection with all creation can be found all the way back to the patristic period - You don't need to cite a eugenicist as it's source.
March 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I really wish the Pope's ghost writers would stop quoting the racist pseudo-scientific fraud Teilhard de Chardin.
Humanity's connection with all creation can be found all the way back to the patristic period - You don't need to cite a eugenicist as it's source.
Humanity's connection with all creation can be found all the way back to the patristic period - You don't need to cite a eugenicist as it's source.
Me right now, after my youngest daughter decided a midnight unsupervised chemistry experiment with slime, would be fun.
January 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Me right now, after my youngest daughter decided a midnight unsupervised chemistry experiment with slime, would be fun.
The dreaded post Christmas cleaning shift.
Happy Boxing Day everyone. 😀
Happy Boxing Day everyone. 😀
December 26, 2024 at 8:42 AM
The dreaded post Christmas cleaning shift.
Happy Boxing Day everyone. 😀
Happy Boxing Day everyone. 😀
I don't know man, it's pretty fundamental to Christianity that virtue isn't always rewarded with secular honours, but just as often with degradation & even martyrdom at the hands of the powers of this world.
December 15, 2024 at 9:02 AM
I don't know man, it's pretty fundamental to Christianity that virtue isn't always rewarded with secular honours, but just as often with degradation & even martyrdom at the hands of the powers of this world.
Live shot of Cardinal Cupich writing about Communion postures.
(seriously, who cares, let people do what works for them).
(seriously, who cares, let people do what works for them).
December 13, 2024 at 5:47 AM
Live shot of Cardinal Cupich writing about Communion postures.
(seriously, who cares, let people do what works for them).
(seriously, who cares, let people do what works for them).
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a disgusting racist and shouldn't be rehabilitated.
(Teilhard writing shortly before his death to insist on eugenics, plus hate on HV for a bonus).
(Teilhard writing shortly before his death to insist on eugenics, plus hate on HV for a bonus).
December 12, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a disgusting racist and shouldn't be rehabilitated.
(Teilhard writing shortly before his death to insist on eugenics, plus hate on HV for a bonus).
(Teilhard writing shortly before his death to insist on eugenics, plus hate on HV for a bonus).
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a disgusting racist and shouldn't be rehabilitated.
(Teilhard writing to the UN to tell them they were wrong to combat racism).
(Teilhard writing to the UN to tell them they were wrong to combat racism).
December 12, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a disgusting racist and shouldn't be rehabilitated.
(Teilhard writing to the UN to tell them they were wrong to combat racism).
(Teilhard writing to the UN to tell them they were wrong to combat racism).