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# ![@FrTotleben92742 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1699881881083478016.png) @FrTotleben92742 Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P.

Fr. Peter Totleben, O.P. posts on X about all the, pope francis, holy see, vix the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 1648 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[all the](/topic/all-the) #1248, [pope francis](/topic/pope-francis) #9, [holy see](/topic/holy-see) #8, [vix](/topic/vix) #100, [op](/topic/op) #277, [leo](/topic/leo) #702, [state of](/topic/state-of) #1264, [give me](/topic/give-me), [reformation](/topic/reformation), [wsj](/topic/wsj)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"For the record Catholics Martin Luther never explained justification by describing people as "snow covered dung heaps" there is no language like that in any of his works"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978874898962428206) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T17:25Z 8764 followers, 7643 engagements


"I think that some of the recent debate about Charlie Kirk and what he was about shows the need for a good understanding of the relationship between nature and grace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979022995600413051) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-17T03:13Z 8763 followers, 1716 engagements


"@BotsForEveryone Here is Merkelbach: "interest is moderate if it is proportioned to the risk to the principal the foregone profit incurred loss and other circumstances of time and place accordng to the prudent estimation of proven people.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979769113351520269) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T04:38Z 8873 followers, 1685 engagements


"My friend Josh Mansfield @WalkingHymnal has a fascinating substack called aptly enough "The Walking Hymnal" because that is what he is. His thoughts are always worth thinking about so you should check it out:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980080958012354867) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:17Z 8878 followers, 1325 engagements


"The reason why fixing the liturgy takes such a long time is because it takes longer to glue a vase back together than it does to break it. -- Especially if you respect the people of God enough not to subject them to the Jacobin tactics of the liturgical revolutionaries of 1964-1972 but in reverse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980081812534657358) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:21Z 8878 followers, 33K engagements


"I get it. Whenever I have to endure a Protestant service I always say to myself "This is why the Reformation was a big mistake." Give me the historic liturgy of any of the apostolic churches any day over a Protestant service"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980272869134217221) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T14:00Z 8878 followers, 51.7K engagements


""Financial freedom" is a false god and like all false gods it will never repay you for all the cruel sacrifices it demands from you. Once you achieve "financial independence" you will be lonely unliked unloved and unlamented as you will have no meaningful relationships with others having used them all for your own ends. Rather in your 20's and throughout your life honor the people who have been put in your life. You may not be "financially free" but who cares you will live a meaningful life full of people whom you love and who love you in return"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980364784064455152) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T20:05Z 8878 followers, 54.1K engagements


"This is a perfect and brilliant takedown of DBH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980418227961500063) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T23:37Z 8875 followers, 6640 engagements


"Relative to all the popes in the history of the Church obviously yes. Relative to the modern papacy (say Leo XIII on) obviously no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980420412640260387) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T23:46Z 8875 followers, 14.4K engagements


"@athanasiusjones I never said that there were a gazillion bad popes in the middle ages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980458155789443494) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T02:16Z 8875 followers, XXX engagements


"I don't think that there is a median of popes because I think that their times were so different that you cannot rank Popes from best to worst; they are relatively incommensurable. I just mean that compared to all the Popes in history Pope Francis was clearly not one of the actually bad ones either in terms of morality or governance -- without trying to determine which percentile of popes he was in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980491304850047007) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T04:28Z 8878 followers, XXX engagements


"@lttlefoot How so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980491930967634088) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T04:30Z 8878 followers, XXX engagements


"@IrelandOCDS But I am preaching through the book of Romans as we read it semi-continuously allegedly at mass. So that does me no good does it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980623470321864985) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T13:13Z 8878 followers, XXX engagements


"If he claims that the DP is intrinsically evil then it isn't. It is also not true that a judgment about when capital punishment may be applied according to the Church's traditional criteria is a development of the doctrine itself. Strictly speaking it is obvious that applying the same teaching to changed circumstances and reaching a new conclusion isn't a development of the doctrine itself. But inasmuch as the church is teaching something that she hadn't taught before that there is a new act of reasoning/judgment being placed there obviously has been a development in the wider sense of that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980661453448245370) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T15:44Z 8878 followers, XXX engagements


"The pope-blesses-ice incident triggers so many right wing Catholics because their secular politics includes irrational paranoia about environmentalism which they oppose to own the libs -- and they think their political beliefs are part of orthodox Catholic dogma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1973675311989756318) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-02T09:03Z 8841 followers, 69K engagements


"I don't really understand the Vigan hate. I obviously disagree with his current output but I think he is a fascinating tragic figure who is more to be pitied. I would love to read a good piece on what happened in his case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1976396733384098112) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-09T21:17Z 8804 followers, 15.8K engagements


"Of course anyone with a little bit of common sense knows that if the Vigan story were told objectively it wouldn't justify his behavior but it would also reveal some very unflattering things about the circle of people around Pope Francis"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1976397470038171853) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-09T21:20Z 8802 followers, 1435 engagements


"Of course there should be tracking and ability grouping in schools. Nor is it a risk to students' self-esteem or whatever because the students will always figure out where they are on the intellectual pecking order anyways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1977119840231194675) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-11T21:11Z 8847 followers, 3683 engagements


"Once you know what Rupnik was accused of (and perhaps even before) you cannot unsee the fact that paintings like the one in this picture are the work of a very sick soul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1977743383243137040) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-13T14:29Z 8872 followers, 26.6K engagements


"@RyanLEllis @oatney76 @WillsBlackwolf @One_That_Rules I would never encourage someone to go to an SSPX mass but I will point out that all the people on here who go on about "obedience" take a much more rigid attitude to the question than has the Holy See -- often making incorrect canonical assertions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1977799008279200115) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-13T18:10Z 8846 followers, XXX engagements


"@thelb236 Fr. Oatney is in fact correct. Pope Francis made their absolutions valid but illicit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978172828466684001) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-14T18:55Z 8872 followers, XXX engagements


"Honestly the TLM isn't going to go anywhere at this point. If it were supressable it would have already been suppressed by now. But here we are 55-60 years later and it's still around and there has never been less interest in suppressing it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978443257202786549) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-15T12:50Z 8764 followers, 33.3K engagements


"For the record: all the speculation on here about the Cupich appointment is one more example of the blind leading the blind on this website when it comes to Church news. No one on here knows what they are talking about which is why everyone is wrong"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978664560694296637) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T03:29Z 8833 followers, 2809 engagements


"To me this is the clinching argument for Catholicism: we get to have this kind of stuff instead of having to sit through some awful boring Presbyterian service or having listen to a narcicistic metrosexual in skinny jeans croon into a microphone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978875937249731023) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T17:29Z 8878 followers, 133K engagements


"Another great example of why we shouldn't introduce the term "pro-life" into Catholic moral discourse -- the debate over whether something should be called "pro-life" or not is not just pointless -- it actively confuses the discussion of the moral issues in play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978947196742439392) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T22:12Z 8802 followers, 7703 engagements


"@AutisticHODL I'm not really sure what this practice has to do with idolatry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978950487815635061) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T22:25Z 8790 followers, 1507 engagements


"Here's what I would like someone like @mfjlews to explain to me: Let's say that critiques of TLM people were actually true. Why not just give the couple hundred people who want it an old church in a bad neighborhood across town and just let them go to church and leave them be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978952138291085438) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T22:32Z 8836 followers, 10.2K engagements


"@BaldwinIVofJer But I want to hear from the advocates of suppression themselves. Why is suppression so important to them Why is it even more important to them than it is to the vast majority of bishops who actually have to deal with the consequences of traditionalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978955625351508039) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T22:46Z 8835 followers, XXX engagements


"I like Barron and I've been a defender of his predominant engagement with the online right in the past. After all he does engage the left he has to go where his audience is and the conversations he wants to have just aren't welcome on the left generally. I get that. But the optics are getting to be too much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1978966400531116515) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-16T23:28Z 8769 followers, 42.9K engagements


"This is an argument that people who say that you are not allowed to critique the NO ever answer. The way that we got the NO was that people critiqued the old rite in exactly the way that people say you are not allowed to critique the NO. Why is one not allowed but the other is fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979210656751439873) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-17T15:39Z 8875 followers, 11.4K engagements


"Seriously though it would be fascinating to get a kind of intellectual biography from Mike. What books or theologians or saints or spiritual writers or philosophers or poets or novelists have shaped his thinking What does he like to read What are his current interests Who shapes his thinking about the things he writes about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979334202739822830) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-17T23:50Z 8835 followers, XXX engagements


"@sanderson1611 The bible does not say that a bishop must be the husband of one wife and the Catholic Church does not teach that a bishop cannot be a husband. Also Paul and Jesus -- neither of whom were married btw -- both praised the discipline of celibacy for the sake of the kingdom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979560788491940168) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-18T14:50Z 8873 followers, 9786 engagements


"@GJCMDP @christian_state @HStromeyer3500 Also the Church does not teach that only the Magisterium gets to interpret the statements of the Magisterium (because these are already the Church's definitive interpretations of Scripiture and tradition)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979562451457740969) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-18T14:57Z 8802 followers, XXX engagements


"I don't know where people got this idea that private interpretation of magisterial statements is illicit. Of course it's perfectly licit. After all it's absolutely necessary to privately interpret magisterial statements before you csnn assent to them or dissent from them at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979651710743347433) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-18T20:52Z 8841 followers, 7580 engagements


"A side note: did the Oval Office decor always look this gaudy and tacky or is that a Trump thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979696888887869825) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-18T23:51Z 8827 followers, 11.5K engagements


"This is a good take: Pope Leo does things by the book that's how he's different from Pope Francis and that's also why he doesn't do things that Pope Francis's fiercest critics want him to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979698477111329183) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-18T23:57Z 8841 followers, 14.5K engagements


"@ducinaltumus This is a fair point actually. I suppose that if we are going to have an American Emperor he would have a Las Vegas aesthetic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979717103369515240) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T01:11Z 8844 followers, 2487 engagements


"The oval office isn't caesar's palace it's Caesar's Palace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979717713745617130) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T01:14Z 8845 followers, 1822 engagements


"@sabrecav Nor is it a Las Vegas Casino"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979748461575852438) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T03:16Z 8835 followers, XXX engagements


"Just to be clear: the Pope is condemning usury in the modern sense of the term where it only means predatory lending or unjust interest (cf. any manual of moral theology Tanqueray has the best treatment but others too) not the practice of all interest. After all the Vatican has both a commercial bank and a sovereign wealth fund and to my knowledge Leo isn't shutting these down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979755910038761667) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T03:46Z 8878 followers, 51.8K engagements


"@jbf789 The quote as you will note does not say that he was going to continue Francis's agenda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979756806084886950) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T03:49Z 8844 followers, XXX engagements


"@Imhotepthe3rd @jshocds That would be a terrible idea. The bank is an expression of sovereignty and it helps to ensure the fincancial independence of the Holy See as well as the organizations that use it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979876860835287251) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T11:46Z 8867 followers, 1032 engagements


"@ConradEduard @BotsForEveryone Perhaps. I think Merkelbach is just listing some traditional extrinsic titles in his list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979909867168047335) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T13:57Z 8873 followers, XX engagements


"@ClementXI1700 Moralists today consider that in a system with modern markets where access to trade and commerce is so ready at hand foregone profit is pretty much always an actual and probable loss and not a potential and improbable loss so this just extrinsic title always exists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979912615116538027) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T14:08Z 8873 followers, XXX engagements


"@ClementXI1700 So the problem isn't that credit cards are unjust per se but whether a credit card charges an unjust interest rate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979912732586512864) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T14:09Z 8872 followers, XXX engagements


"@stirling_arthur @christopherrkay @hf_222222 Actually the RoTR view has pretty much won the day so much so that it is the standard view of most priests in the US. Very few people at this point and virtually no priest under the age of XX wants a liturgy frozen in an eternal 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979931452864086329) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T15:23Z 8868 followers, XXX engagements


"@WorshipTheCross @BotsForEveryone Yes according to Vix Pervenit lucrum cessans is a just extrinsic title for collecting interest on a loan. And yes the meaning for "usury" has shifted in parlance in modern times. The pope is not condemning all interest on loans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979937170103083104) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T15:46Z 8873 followers, XXX engagements


"@WorshipTheCross @TheAltarServer3 @BotsForEveryone Yes and among those titles modern moralists have been virtually unanimous in conceding that lucrum cessans is one of the valid titles. Plus the other citations from the Holy See all explicitly say that taking interest on loans is morally licit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1979993070826369484) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T19:28Z 8873 followers, XX engagements


"I'm not arguing either against Scripture or tradition and your assertion that I am begs the question. I just reject your exegesis of scripture as not sufficiently taking into account the whole of the NT the context of the verse in question and St. Paul's usual idiom. Proof texting one verse out of context is simply bad exegesis. My aporoach to exegesis is simply more sound than yours"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980033874098110596) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T22:10Z 8827 followers, XX engagements


"The passage at most asserts that some apostles have wives but not St. Peter specifically on whom the passage is agnostic. "The apostles and Cephas" is just a set expression in St. Paul. So to determine the status of St. Peter we have to look to the witness of the NT as a whole regarding St. Peter and determine which side of the question is more probable regarding him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980037296318542120) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-19T22:24Z 8827 followers, XX engagements


"The parish is fully under the jurisdiction of the bishop and it is a parish of the diocese just like any other and follows all the same rules as any other parish of the diocese. The bishop invites the Dominicans to run the parish and the bishop appoints the pastor. Typically the bishop appoints as pastor the person whom the Dominican provincial proposes to him. This is often but not always the prior (or superior) of the Dominican community. Whereas in a typical parish the parish pays out to the diocesan priests a salary according to a schedule of salaries that the diocese publishes (and the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980079951937179789) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:13Z 8825 followers, XXX engagements


"This is why St. Thomas rejected the ontological argument because even though God's essence does turn out to be identical with his act of being God's real definition is unknowable by man and no unbeliever is going to grant that the nominal definition of the word "God" is "existence itself" or "than than which nothing greater can exist." So God's existence is not known of itself; you have to establish it by an argument and then go on to show that God's essence is his act of being"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980082887857774656) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:25Z 8878 followers, 8904 engagements


"I personally have a list of things I wish he'd jump on and just do and a list of people that he would sack. But after the last XX years I'm content with a pope who is just going to be boring and stable and orderly and smile and do nice public ceremonies and say normal things -- even if I don't get all my desiderata and have to wait to get the ones that I do get"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980086028741533722) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:37Z 8836 followers, XXX engagements


"@_gidDy_Up_ The Vatican bank doesn't make loans but my point is that the Vatican is very much involved in the global financial system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980086566748909762) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:40Z 8833 followers, XXX engagements


"People also forget or omit to mention that Vix Pervenit permits interest on loans that is due to an external title so its condemnation isn't as absolute as they say. And they also don't know or omit to mention that subsequent declarations of organs of the Holy See admit the liceity of taking interest on loans presumably because it is the unanimous consent of moralists that these external titles commonly exist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980086842297852145) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T01:41Z 8833 followers, XXX engagements


"@edgarjbb_ 's encounter with thugs from the Venezuelan regime who tried to intimidate him from doing journalism should be shared and more widely known. Good for him for standing tall and continuing to do excellent journalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980111408583852232) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T03:18Z 8841 followers, XXX engagements


"Once again we have @mfjlewis opening his mouth about a subject that he literally knows nothing about and refuses to learn about remaining stubbornly and incorrigibly ignorant all the while thinking he's being clever because he is too uninformed to know what he doesn't know. Read. A. Book. Please. Just. Read. A. Book. for. once. in. your. life"  
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"I'm afraid you are criticizing the wrong party here. Mike is the one who picked this fight just as he has done so many times over the years. Not to mention all the hate campaigns he has launched against me and others over the years and the times that he has tried to get me and others punished by our superiors. So your tut-tutting about my alleged "lack of charity civility and diplomacy" is entirely misdirected here. It belongs directed squarely at Mike. I also note that you are attacking my character not my argument. I'm not sure that your rash misjudgment of my character "speaks volumes""  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980255809431855334) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T12:52Z 8868 followers, XXX engagements


"I'm just sick and tired of putting up with Lewis's nonsense. This is a guy who has been attacking me for years calling me a schismatic crypto-Lefebvrite and such publicly impugning my orthodoxy launching online hate campaigns against me and trying to have me punished by my superiors. I'm ordinarily a pretty chill guy but after all this I am all out of chill when it comes to Mike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980258419081699498) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-20T13:02Z 8875 followers, XXX engagements


"@cynicalmystic88 @MattC1143 @mfjlewis What are you talking about I supplied a really long counter-argument that showed Mike was not well read on the topic and I provided a link to an actual source for Mike to read"  
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"@EamonnClark @mfjlewis This is actually remarked upon by subsequent documents of the Holy See"  
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"I do only offer the one and only sacrifice of praise thanksgiving propitiation and supplication -- the sacrifice that Jesus offered on the cross -- every time I offer the Mass. The Mass is numerically the same sacrifice as the one and once-for-all sacrifice that Jesus offered on the Cross. The Mass is not another sacrifice in addition to Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross nor is it a re-sacrificing of Jesus. Rather it is a participation in the one-and-once-for-all sacrifice of Calvary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980473073103974832) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T03:15Z 8868 followers, XX engagements


"It's actually kind of fascinating to think about. The light of glory enables the divine essence itself to be the very intelligible species by which you know God but it is impossible to form a concept (or speak an interior mental word) of what you see. You behold God and what you behold is so glorious that in one complete moment you find yourself stammering to articulate or conceptualize or speak what you have beheld and you find yourself utterly unable to do so. God's glory is literally unspeakable and ineffable. And so all you can do is give yourself over to the love for his beauty that"  
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"@Cowgyrlie You won't find Trinity Incarnation the Fall or Original Sin either among other things. Do you believe in these"  
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"@chrisjollyhale Actually Barron wrote the official statement for the Minnesota bishops on this matter"  
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"@athanasiusjones Well ignoring the question of whether Luther's presentatuon is accurate how would that imply time for a soul in pugatory. Purgatory does not denote a place but a state of a soul"  
[X Link](https://x.com/FrTotleben92742/status/1980680164406399161) [@FrTotleben92742](/creator/x/FrTotleben92742) 2025-10-21T16:58Z 8875 followers, XX engagements


"The problem is that this is not how activists in the Church see the matter. And those activists are the people whom Francis chose as his collaborators. This is what more orthodox/conswrvarive defenders of Francis overlook: Feancis' own handpicked collaborators openly say that Francis' decisions are meant to be definitice breaks with prior Church discipline and teaching"  
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"What are these blemishes that make it unready for heaven if the soul is in a state of sanctifying grace and charity How can such a soul be not ready for heaven yet This is explaining handwaving with more handwaving And who says that these blemishes whatever they are admit of degrees so that they can be removed over an interval of time Maybe these blemishes whatever they are are the kinds of things that are either there or not there in which case they cannot be removed over an interval of time but are remitted instantaneously"  
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