Byzantine Catholic layman. Dominican tertiary. Husband, & father of 3. Doctoral candidate in theology, seeking the true, good, and beautiful.
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John A. Monaco retweeted
It’s probably a bad idea to respond to this. But these kind of tweets bother me because they’re designed to create outrage.
There are 137+ Masses per week at Notre Dame, scattered across campus. Steubenville has a single chapel and around 20 Masses per week.
Likewise, there are 1,000 theology majors and minors at Notre Dame. The University President had ND consecrated to the Sacred Heart.
Further, how can you assess the catholicity of a university without engaging in dialogue with students who are more often than not the kind of people that inspire me to be a better Catholic professor, to seek truth together?
Go to Franciscan. Go to ND or Marquette or Incarnate Word or Gonzaga or Loras College. You’ll find vital cultures where faith and reason, intellect and devotion are flourishing.
But don’t trust Bree.
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John A. Monaco retweeted
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
John A. Monaco retweeted
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
John A. Monaco retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
John A. Monaco retweeted
"It seemed certain that at the moment when the Kingdom of heaven would come to touch the earth, it would immediately burst the fragile envelope of time, dissipate sorrow, cast out death, “make all things new,” (Rev. 21:5) and transfigure the universe. Indeed, should it descend for anything other than this? But, behold, on the contrary, that its power is covered with signs of weakness and its grandeur with signs of humility. Behold that its eternity slips silently under the unchanged bark of time. Behold that its felicity is immersed in the very ocean of our trials. It was made so as to disperse suffering, temptations, and death, and behold that it chooses to live in the midst of them so as to tame them, seeking not—alas!—to eliminate them but only to illuminate them. The law of its radiation ought to be a law of the glorious transfiguration and behold that it wishes to be first of all and for long centuries only a law of sorrowful sanctification. We expected it in its radiance as the heavenly kingdom in paradise, and behold that it has come to us with the traits of a pilgrim and crucified kingdom."
- Journet, Church of the Word Incarnate, vol. 4, p. 979