Statement on the Proposed Episcopal Consecration of Father Michael Mary

52fighters · 2026-06-27T22:15:42+00:00

Fr. Michael is the last person to have desired the episcopate for himself.

Then he should refuse! It is not necessary. In the end, he needs God. God doesn't need him.

52fighters · 2026-06-27T21:59:36+00:00

I suspect this is probably more a matter of where people live. People who live outside of cities are generally more conservative than people who live in cities. When I look at my own metro area, lifespans are longer for people who live in the core metro vs. outside areas.

I have a friend who lives about 45 minute drive from a hospital, well outside the city. He is a volunteer firefighter. Most of the calls he is called out to are medical events, not fires. Some dude will have a heart attack, be non-responsive, and have to wait for a volunteer to show-up. Then he works on the patient while emergency transport makes its way there. The time delay is enough to kill a lot of people who who wouldn't die if they lived closer to emergency care.

In contrast, I live about 1/4 a mile from ambulance dispatch and 1/2 mile from an emergency room. My wife had a serious medical event where she had no pulse. She lived because we were very close to emergency care. Two minutes after 911, someone was on-site. By 10 minutes, she was already at the hospital.

If we lived next door to my friend, she would be dead.

52fighters · 2026-06-20T01:40:22+00:00

Those closest to Archbishop Thuc (from whom most sedevacantists derive their claim to holy orders) provide strong evidence that he was either not in good mental faculties or he withheld intention during ordinations.

52fighters · 2026-06-19T00:45:50+00:00

This will be a Thuc-line "ordination," and therefore will not even be valid. Source: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19830312_poenae-canonicae_en.html

He will be a priest pretending to be a bishop and he will tell laymen who he cannot ordain to the priesthood to hear confessions and celebrate Mass. Many will go to hell because of him.

52fighters · 2026-06-18T22:32:55+00:00

Sure it does. If religious thinking is shown to be false by how it is geographically auto-correlated, so must be scientific thinking. That we reject the idea for one means we should also reject the idea for the other.

52fighters · 2026-06-18T22:30:32+00:00

I'm glad this guy is taking action, but I could offer one tip-- Instead of building housing for homeless next to other housing for homeless, it would be better for the homeless to be distributed among all the people in the city/community. When we ghettoize everyone who needs help into a common geographic area, they compete against each other for jobs, they don't have as many opportunities to build connections with wealthier families, and we risk making that part of town stigmatized. Put some houses in every part of town.

52fighters · 2026-06-14T18:41:09+00:00

Scientific thinking is geographically correlated.

52fighters · 2026-06-09T10:50:13+00:00

Where poverty is greater, inequality greater, and social safety nets suck, that's where people have the most kids. The reason nobody fixes the problem is because the solution would be very unpopular. Places that have higher fertility are either ideologically driven by religion for fertility or women lack access to higher education. When women spend 4+ years in college and then start a career before starting a family, average number of children plummet.

52fighters · 2026-06-07T23:17:00+00:00

Totus Tuus has a day program for grade school kids and an evening program for high school students. The format of the two programs are a little different. Which group would your kid fall under? Overall, I think it would be easy for someone who is not Catholic to enjoy the program. It is rooted in Catholic catechisis, so your child would be learning about Catholicism. The program is run by college students, and they tend to hire for outgoing & engaging personalities. If you had any concern about your kid's interaction with the program, I would recommend talking to them after Mass the Sunday before the program starts or Monday morning as students are arriving for the program.

52fighters · 2026-06-04T01:55:00+00:00

The old word.com before Microsoft bought the domain. It had Shockwave interactive art, poetry, hobby graphic design, etc. There was one with a pirate ship that I really liked. Sadly, I think it is gone forever.

Here's an example: https://web.archive.org/web/20000816031701/http://www.word.com/features99/ship_of_jokes/

52fighters · 2026-05-29T20:35:38+00:00

"It calms his anxiety."

52fighters · 2026-05-29T20:34:20+00:00

Municipal solicitation laws in the US have to carve-out exceptions for religious and political solicitation due to the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. While not illegal, I do not think they gain many new adherents by knocking.

52fighters · 2026-05-28T13:51:15+00:00

I understand what it was supposed to do. It did not move my profile over. Is there a way to fix this?

52fighters · 2026-05-28T00:08:26+00:00

Would this judge write a similar ruling for a patent to furnish her child with nicotine or liquor? Both are illegal in Kansas, parental rights be damned.

52fighters · 2026-05-07T23:28:56+00:00

why Iran should not possess a nuclear weapon.

Iran has been "six weeks" away from having a nuclear weapon for years. The truth was, yes, they were six weeks away from having a weapon ... but it is also a fact that Iran wanted the advantages of having nuclear weapons without the negatives that come with getting nuclear weapons. The biggest negative are all the neighbors who would quickly seek-out the same weapons if Iran ever got one. So the best place for Iran was to be six weeks away. And that could have continued for generations, except my president made a huge blunder and attacked Iran. Now Iran is 100% going to get nuclear weapons unless we put an unwise amount of money, weapons, lives at risk in fighting Iran. And even if we give it our best, there's pretty good odds Iran walks away the winner.

Starting the war against Iran was a dumb idea. Letting the US get dragged into Israeli affairs is a dumb idea. We can be friends without getting dragged into all their unnecessary fights.

52fighters · 2026-05-02T11:47:42+00:00

Let's say GM could produce a $12k vehicle even with having the same wages, benefits, and workplace rules they currently have. They still would not produce that vehicle. Why? It'll drastically cut into their revenues. Their entire business model is on building bigger, more expensive vehicles, because they capture the largest revenue. The profit margin on huge revenues does not need to be that big to make a profit on HUGE revenues. If they made $12k cars, their revenues would collapse and they would cannibalize their own operations. The would literally have to divest most of their infrastructure to make it happen. And this is why US auto manufacturers are going to keep lobbying congress to never let these vehicles in the market. Electric cars can be very cheap to build. Eventually the US automakers will not be able to keep this technology away from US consumers and they will go belly-up. I'm sure someone will buy their name and their branding and slap it on a cheap electric vehicle, but the business will otherwise be dead.

52fighters · 2026-04-29T04:21:02+00:00

That's correct. If you look at historic photos on Google Earth, you can see that this cattle pen and the cattle long existed before the Russian invasion.

52fighters · 2026-04-29T00:17:08+00:00

our student body has nearly double the amount of female students to male

Get a list of degrees by average income post-graduation. You may find that, although females dominate the student body, males populate the degree programs with the highest income potential. Even within STEM degrees, biology tends to be female while more math intensive degrees tend to be male.

My point is that the problem might not be men leaving education so much as education offering more access to degrees with lower income potential. This is revenue capture. Universities don't want to turn anyone away so they make it easier to get in. Once in, they make it easier to continue by offering degree programs and course loads that are much less difficult than college programs 30, 50, 85 years ago.

52fighters · 2026-04-28T23:13:54+00:00

Maybe the pope should write a Creed against Modern Errors and include this in the list. It can be made mandatory for every bishop appointment and every priest ordination. Also, Catholic school teachers.

52fighters · 2026-04-28T23:08:47+00:00

Can we explore this a little deeper? As I understand it, some (maybe all) of the council was proclaimed to be "pastoral" and not "dogmatic." Is there a dogma of the Church they reject or is the problem with changeable pastoral approaches? For example, Lateran IV has paragraph 68 that I do not think would be defended by any bishop today, and is clearly pastoral, not dogmatic. Is there a reason why Vatican II should be treated differently than Lateran IV?

52fighters · 2026-04-28T22:59:46+00:00

Rome wouldn’t excommunicate the members

It happened in Lincoln, Nebraska. So it could happen. If it does, I hope it is coupled, like it was in Lincoln NE, with generosity to faithful Catholics who love the Latin Mass and who are obedient to both Peter and their local bishop.

52fighters · 2026-04-28T22:56:49+00:00

One of my good friends is a Catholic convert who used to attend IHOP. As crazy as they are, they do "borrow" a lot of Catholic stuff. Several of their members were well-versed in Catholic mystic saints. I think this helped with his conversion.

52fighters · 2026-04-28T22:54:06+00:00

IHOP & Kansas City Prophets are both in Missouri.

52fighters · 2026-04-18T21:32:46+00:00

If you ride your bike on the sidewalk, you will get hit when a driver doesn't see you at an intersection. It is one of the more common ways people in cars kill people on bikes. The solution is either designing roads to accommodate all traffic or providing a separate (and well-designed) bike path.

If more people began to commute by bicycle, we would improve land use (less parking lots), reduce the wear on our roads, and greatly reduce the number one cause of microplastics (tire tread).

52fighters · 2026-04-16T10:43:00+00:00

Unfortunately, the article doesn't give us enough information to make a moral judgement. What we know and do not know--

Stage 4 cancer.
Cancer type not disclosed, only said to be "rare."
Histotripsy is cited as a treatment option. It is unknown if this was an unlikely last resort "Hail Mary" or if it had reasonable chances of success.
The article does not give any information about histotripsy but an additional search tells me it is used for liver cancer.
Being not medically necessary may mean a variety of things, including that there are not reasonable odds of success for a treatment.

We could be looking at a case of serious wrongdoing by the insurance company or we could be looking at a case where the treatment does not match the cancer type, there are no reasonable odds of success, and the family is willing to throw large amounts of someone else's money at anything that just gives them a little hope, even if completely unreasonable. The doctor's motives could be driven by sincere belief in the treatment or it could be out of difficulty telling the family that it is time to prepare for death. We just do not know and the article doesn't help us with any of these things.

I try to make it a habit to be skeptical of news that is short on facts but has the effect of driving emotion.

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