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Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
The Tennessee bishop recently accused of being hostile to Catholic tradition has just made a rather important statement in its defence. The background makes this considerably more interesting than it first appears.
Bishop Mark Beckman of Knoxville, has attracted considerable criticism from traditional Catholics. Last year, he severely restricted the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass in his diocese. More recently, he caused an extraordinary backlash by asking priests to discontinue the customary communal recitation of prayers, including the much-loved Prayer to St Michael, immediately before and after Mass. I confess that I initially found the latter decision particularly difficult to understand. Why discourage such a beautiful and powerful prayer, especially at a time when the Church surely needs St Michael's intercession more than ever?
But when I commented on the controversy, Deacon David Oatney @oatney76 of Knoxville provided some useful local context. The custom had been mandated by Beckman's predecessor, Bishop Richard Stika, ostensibly as a response to the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Stika subsequently resigned in 2023, aged just 65, following an apostolic visitation and serious allegations concerning his handling of abuse cases and diocesan administration. Deacon Oatney explained that, for some within the diocese, the prayer had acquired a painful association with that troubled period. He personally loves the St Michael Prayer, but suggested that Beckman's decision might be understood partly as an attempt to move beyond aspects of his predecessor's legacy. That does not establish the bishop's motivation, and I remain unconvinced that discontinuing a perfectly orthodox and beloved devotion is necessarily the best pastoral response. But it demonstrates why local knowledge matters, and why we should be cautious about interpreting every episcopal decision through the prism of the liturgy wars.
The diocese has also clarified that Beckman has not prohibited the faithful from praying to St Michael. His concern is with routinely attaching additional communal prayers to the celebration of Mass.
Now comes another interesting development.
On 2 November, following controversy surrounding an unauthorised ministry associated with the Society of St Pius X, the Diocese of Knoxville published an instruction addressing ecclesiastical communion, tradition and obedience. Among its statements is this particularly important sentence:
"Attachment to the Traditional Latin Mass does not itself constitute schism."
Coming from a bishop whom some traditional Catholics have come to regard as an opponent of their liturgical inheritance, that is worth noticing. Beckman goes on to explain that Catholics may legitimately express concerns about episcopal decisions and seek their reconsideration, but that liturgical preference cannot justify establishing a parallel ministry in defiance of lawful ecclesiastical authority. I think he is right about that because the traditional liturgy is a treasure of the Church, and Catholics should be free to advocate for its preservation and wider availability. I also believe that some of the restrictions imposed upon faithful traditional communities have been pastorally disastrous, creating alienation where there ought to have been understanding and generosity. But fidelity to Catholic tradition necessarily includes fidelity to the visible communion of the Church. We cannot defend the inheritance handed down to us while treating the authority of the bishops in communion with Peter as something optional.
There is, of course, a corresponding responsibility upon bishops. If attachment to the older liturgy is not inherently schismatic, then those who cherish it should not be treated as though they are perpetually suspected of disloyalty. This is what makes Beckman's statement particularly useful. Whatever one's judgement about his liturgical decisions, he has explicitly rejected the suggestion that traditional liturgical attachment is itself evidence of schism. It is possible to disagree with a bishop's pastoral judgement without rejecting his authority. It is equally possible to insist upon ecclesiastical obedience while recognising that bishops sometimes make decisions that are unnecessarily restrictive or pastorally unwise.
The recent ordinations of four traditional priests in Fréjus-Toulon offer one encouraging example of how these tensions might be resolved constructively. Knoxville presents a more difficult situation, but the underlying principle is the same. Catholic tradition does not exist in opposition to Catholic communion. Both belong to the same Church, and both deserve to be defended. Perhaps the way forward begins when bishops stop regarding traditional Catholics as a problem, and traditional Catholics stop assuming that every bishop who disappoints them must be an enemy.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
A Holy Mass was celebrated at Auschwitz on All Souls’ Day to remember and pray for the victims of Nazi persecution.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
To clear up a misunderstanding, the Catholic Church has never claimed to have a monopoly on Truth. The Church claims that she has the *fullness* of truth, but 1) that’s not a monopoly, and 2) the Church is still learning - because God is infinite and it is impossible to exhaust the infinite.
The Church has always understood that something true is true *regardless* of who says it. Hence, the Church recognizes truths in Aristotle and even adopts such Aristotelian language in doctrines like Transubstantiation. Even our most celebrated Theologians (especially Aquinas) have had no problem quoting and learning from Jews (like Maimonides), Muslims (like Averroes), and pagans (like Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, etc.)
Truth doesn’t contradict truth. The Catholic intellectual tradition is about trying to get a better understanding of how all truths are integrated together. To be fair, that doesn’t mean that we think all religions are *equally* true, because we are convinced that the Trinity Itself is the ground and foundation for all reality. But, when we are at our best, we are willing to tip our hats whenever someone else speaks the truth.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
And here we have yet another example of how Sola Scriptura leads people straight into regurgitating ancient heresies.
This time, it's the heresy of Partialism.
Nearly 2,000 years of Christian theology, and thanks to the Protestant Reformation, we're still watching Protestants reinvent the very errors the Church condemned long ago.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
🔴 You can’t make this up.
In January, the Iranian regime killed +40,000 protesters in the streets, including children as young as 8.
Just 90 days later, countries like the UK, France, and Spain supported Iran’s appointment to a leadership role on a UN human rights body.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Pope Leo XIV spent 18 years as a missionary in Peru
But yeah he should take time out of being pope to read US Protestant X so that he can see that helping the poor is bad and going to war is good in the eyes of Jesus
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
The Supreme Court has just ruled 6-3 that public schools as government institutions may not transition other people's children without parental knowledge and consent. Kudos to all involved including my old friend and superb litigator San Diego's own Charles LiMandri. God bless America!
edweek.org/policy-politics/s…
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Atheists murdered well over 100 million people in a single century, many of them were killed for being religious.
That happened.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
"What Lucifer lost by pride Mary won by humility. What Eve ruined and lost by disobedience Mary saved by obedience. By obeying the serpent, Eve ruined her children; but by obeying God, Mary saved hers."
St. Louis de Montfort
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
I don’t have to “imagine” Owen. I remember when the regime in Iran sprayed schools around the country with poison gas during “Woman, Life, Freedom” and killed over 1,000 school girls.
The media, including yourself, said absolutely nothing.
Hope that answers your question.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Every time a sad boy poaches a trophy from girls' sports, a sad girl should be allowed to poach from the boys - taking away their accomplishments, scholarships and records.
But we all know that could never happen bc it's only girls who are expected to absorb unfairness.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
California parole told officers to stop tracking a felon with 91 prior felonies.
Weeks later he killed Hanako Abe and Elizabeth Platt.
Now there's a civil rights lawsuit naming the officials who gave that order.
garryslist.org/posts/91-felo…
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
In 2010 a team of Israeli specialist eye surgeons were invited to the Maldives by the government to perform cataract surgery that enabled some people to see again and to train medical practitioners in the archipelago nation.
All the treatments were free and so was the training to raise skills in the medical community.
Immediately, local Islamists began a campaign claiming the Jews were in the Maldives to steal people's eyes.
There hasn't been such a team since.
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Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
“because he put rocks in a girl’s mouth”
And what else did they do to her, Brian? Oh.
They gang-r4ped a CHILD.
What is wrong with you? They did this at 12, what do you think they’ll do as men with adult strength? You don’t “accidentally” gang r4pe a child. This isn’t a “turning point” or “learning experience.”
FL has capital punishment for child r4pists, and those “boys” earned that punishment. I hope they get it, if not from the state, from karmic justice.
Killing a kid - rather having someone else kill a kid - because he put rocks in a girl's mouth doesn't sound like an eye for an eye, it sounds like rage and miscalculation. Age 12 is a big turning and learning point. Problem is who can he learn from?
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A grand jury indicted the defendants on various charges, including kidnapping and rape.
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Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Hello @Scott_Wiener.
We represent a family in Mirabelli v. Bonta whose daughter's school secretly transitioned her in 7th grade.
New name, new pronouns, all hidden from Mom and Dad—even in parent-teacher conferences.
She attempted suicide. Hospitalized twice.
The parents learned about her gender dysphoria from a doctor after her suicide attempt, not from the school.
SECRECY threatens the lives of kids, not the other way around. That's the reality.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
I’m not just angry. I’m furious with you Elizabeth Warren.
Stop using the suffering of my people as political ammunition against Donald Trump.
You say you are grieving for those killed in this “unnecessary war.”
Really? I checked your social media. More than 20 posts attacking President Trump after he removed a monster terrorist of Iran, Ali Khamenei, but not one post grieving the massacre of more than 32,000 unarmed Iranian people. Why? Shocking.
More than 10,000 protesters were intentionally blinded by security forces. Young women were shot in the eyes. Students were beaten to death. Families were burying their children. Where were you then?
We are not a tool. The pain of us Iranians is not a talking point for your partisan battles.
As a woman, your silence while women in Iran were being shot, jailed, and blinded is more than disappointing. It is insulting. No it is beyond that. It is a slap in the face of Iranian mothers burying their children who have been killed by Islamic Republic.
I cannot ignore this hypocrisy.
Our suffering did not fit your narrative. Our voices were inconvenient. Now that the situation serves your political agenda, you speak loudly.
Very heartbreaking to see, powerful women in the West totally ignoring Iranians being slaughtered. 💔
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Pray for this lady, she is a mother who has been charged with criminal offenses for silently praying near an abortion clinic. 🇬🇧
She did not say her prayers out loud, merely bowed her head in silent prayer.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Yo te invito a mirar los números:
Inquisición católica: 2.000 o 3.000 muertos en 350 años (y hubo más de 300.000 juicios, solo 2.000 o 3.000 terminaron en el patíbulo).
Protestantismo: 150.000 brujas quemadas, 70.000 católicos muertos por Enrique VIII e Isabel de Inglaterra. Miles de muertos en América del Norte, al punto tal que mientras de México hasta Argentina hay poblaciones indígenas completas (zonas católicas), en Estados Unidos y en Canadá no hay un solo indio (zona protestante). Los pocos que hay están en las reservas que se encuentran en zonas que antes eran españolas.
Hubo 30 millones de muertos por parte de los budistas en las guerras entre Japón y China.
Hubo 3 millones de muertos por parte de los hinduístas en el avispero que terminó matando al mismo Gandhi.
Hubo millones de muertos provocados por los musulmanes que habían pasado a filo de espada a regiones como Egipto y Turquía (completamente cristianas) y habían pasado a filo de espada a las regiones cristianas del norte de África. Los musulmanes, aún hoy en día, tienen esclavos en Pakistán y en varios de los 58 países musulmanes, siguen matando cristianos y tratando como basura a sus mujeres. Menos mal que los cruzados los frenaron en la batalla de Lepanto y en Viena. De lo contrario, Europa sería musulmana y también América.
También hubo miles de muertos provocados por el Sanedrín, los fariseos y los sumos sacerdotes. Entre los muertos está nuestro Señor Jesucristo, el único que resucitó.
Bien, hablemos de los muertos de los ateos:
1) Comunismo ateo: 100 millones de muertos.
2) Masones ateos de la revolución francesa: algunos hablan de 120.000 muertos, otros de 2 millones.
3) El comunismo ateo, los masones y los liberales ateos fueron los propulsores del crimen del aborto que mata 75 millones de seres humanos todos los años, produciendo el genocidio más grande de la humanidad.
¿Adoctrinamiento? Fueron las ideologías de izquierda (ateas) que propagaron la ideología de género, que la quisieron imponer hasta en niños. En Canadá y en California hasta han metido presos a padres de familia que se opusieron a la mutilación de sus hijos (mal llamado "cambio de sexo"). En Irlanda metieron 300 días preso a un profesor por no aceptar que un alumno varón se quería identificar como mujer.
Puedo hablar del adoctrinamiento marxista, ateo y liberal por mucho más tiempo, sobre todo si hablamos del feminismo que mete odio entre el hombre y la mujer, del indigenismo que mete odio entre el hombre blanco y el indígena, etc, etc. Todas esas son ideologías ATEAS.
No todos los ateos son marxistas, liberales y masones, pero es innegable que esas ideologías brotan del ateísmo.
Te digo como "adoctrinamos" nosotros a nuestra gente.
1) Cumplan al menos el quinto mandamiento "no matarás". Si la gente lo cumpliese no habría guerras, no habría abortos, no habría narcotráfico, no habría asesinos seriales, no habría odio ni rencor, no habría torturas ni peleas. El mundo estaría mucho mejor.
2) Cumplan al menos el sexto mandamiento "no fornicar". No habría divorcios, no habría pedófilos, no habría violadores, no habría adulterios, no habría pornografía, no habría familias destruidas ni chicos con problemas psicológicos, no habría ideología de género ni seudo-matrimonios antinaturales, no habría mafias de prostitución ni prostitución infantil, etc. El mundo estaría mucho mejor.
3) Cumplan el septimo mandamiento "no robarás": nuestros gobiernos serían honestos, no habría ladrones, no habría usureros, no habría robos de bancos ni habría COMUNISMO (que son los grandes ladrones), no habría pobreza porque todos trabajarían y las riquezas estarían mejor distribuidas, etc.
Puedo ir a todos los mandamientos y mostrarte como el cristianismo libera, en cambio el ateísmo esclaviza. Nosotros adoramos al verdadero Dios Uno y Trino. En cambio, los ateos ideólogos (no todos los son, algunos son buenas personas, aunque estén equivocados en su ateísmo) en cambio no adoran a Dios pero se adoran a sí mismos, y es por eso que del ego del hombre surgen todas las ideologías mencionadas que tanto daño hacen al mundo.
Repito: los hombres cristianos que han matado, violado o hecho cosas aberrantes no lo han hecho por ser cristianos, sino PESE a serlo. El verdadero cristiano ve el rostro de Jesucristo en cada persona que lo rodea. En cambio el ateo que se vuelve ideólogo lo hace porque el ateísmo, al no tener valores morales objetivos, puede tranquilamente terminar en todas esas atrocidades, ya que si no hay un dios que decide lo que está mal y lo que está bien, el hombre termina siendo dios para si mismo.
Gracias a Dios, Él existe, y Él juzgará a las personas por sus obras, por eso existe el cielo (o el purgatorio antes de ir al cielo), y el infierno. El ateo luego de su muerte se enfrentará a Dios, porque no importa si crees o no crees. Dios existe y te juzgará. Ojalá te tenga misericordia y ojalá dejes de ser ateo antes de morir. Bendiciones.
Gay Lynn Schlosser PT, DPT, NCS, C/NDT retweeted
Four Catholic nuns of the Missionaries of Charity were brutally murdered by Houthi militants on this day in 2016, in Aden, Yemen. The nuns—two from Rwanda, one from India, and one from Kenya—were serving at a care home for the elderly and disabled when armed attackers stormed the facility and executed them along with twelve other staff members and volunteers.
