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Carl E. Olson
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Carl E. Olson
@carleolson
Catholic husband, father, artist, music/book collector, author of books on theosis, the Resurrection, the Rapture, Lent/Advent. Editor @cworldreport. Acerbic!
- "These Christians were literally praying as they were crucified and eaten by lions."
These children were literally praying as they got shot at. - Exactly right. Catholic converts are idiots. Worse, they are arrogant, boring, banal, dull jerks. The Apostle Paul, for example, was a misogynist. Augustine? Complete loser. And don't get me started on Newman, who couldn't think or write to save his life. And Chesterton? Please.JD Vance is a perfect example of why you can’t trust Catholic converts
- In your charity, will you say a prayer for Linda, who is approaching death. She was a second mother to me when I was a teen; a loving and patient Catholic who put up with this often obnoxious Fundamentalist boy on countless occasions. May God grant her peace in these final days.
- Unlike this snarky priest, I knew the actual details of the parable of the Good Samaritan as a Bible-only, Fundamentalist teenager. But Fr. Beck, for all his obvious arrogance, does not. And the tone he uses in talking of VP Vance as a convert ("only six years!") is the revealBeck: Augustine does not say you start with just your family and then work it out in these concentric circles that JD Vance is talking about. The Pope says, no, Mr. Vance, you who are a catholic only for six years. I'm a catholic for 88 years as being Pope, he's a convert to
00:00 - In July, our 19-year-old son Gavin was rushed to ER; he had a 4" cancerous tumor between his heart and lungs. Doctors gave him a 50/50 chance with chemo. The following weeks were rough. But, praise God, the tumor is now gone! Thank you for the MANY prayers and notes. #Grateful
Replying to @carleolsonBut, last week, after experiencing severe chest/back pain, he was diagnosed with cancer. He has a tumor between his heart and lungs; doctors give him a 50/50 chance with chemo, which begins this week. In your charity, please say a prayer for Gavin and our family. - My father, now 81, built his first gun at 11. Raised dirt poor. Worked as a sawyer. Has built custom rifles for people around the world. Often works 16-hr days. Can fix anything with his hands. Hunts. Never swears. Loves God. Been married for 60 years. Beat cancer. That's a man.
- Homosophistry. Pete is not married. His relationship with another man does not in some way mimic or reflect Trinitarian love. That which is intrinsiclally disordered cannot be aligned with what is true Order and Love (cf. CCC 2357). It's not hateful to say so. It's simplyFr James Martin calls Pete Buggigieg's homosexual 'parenting' 'beautiful', compares it to the Holy Trinity. For more see the LifeSite coverage here: lifesitenews.com/news/fr-james-…
00:00 - In truth, @AOC is not the future of the Church but the perfect face of progressive "Catholicism": arrogant, shameless, scolding, preening, theologically vacuous, historically illiterate, morally incoherent, ideologically driven, and politically obsessed.
- Is it not a bit strange that certain Catholics who are yelling "The Good Samaritan! The Good Samaritan!" are also so disdainful and unloving toward converts to the Catholic Faith? Let's see: "A priest happened to be going down to be on CNN, and when he saw the convert being
- Colbert is typical of most lefty-trendy-capitulating Catholics: he's opposed to the Church's clear teachings on life and sexuality, he's full of himself, and he's boring. He's a human yawn.A requiem for Stephen Colbert, the most subversive Catholic voice in late-night TV americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2…
- The Ratzinger/Benedict XVI section in my library. Not entirely complete, as I have several other books by and about him in various piles and on my desk.
- This is slanderous. But it is a perfect example of how those who talk endlessly about synodality, accompaniment, and inclusion (not to mention "processes"!) are ecclesiastical tyrants of the most petty and base sort.Good news out of Detroit, whose archbishop has decided to give his seminary a new direction, retiring three theologians / canonists who notoriously dissented from the papal magisterium in intemperate ways. ncronline.org/news/detroit-a…
- This is embarrassing, insulting, angering, and worse. Meanwhile, over @cworldreport, where I am Editor, we've had the following pieces, almost all from the last year and most by correspondents in/near Nigeria: • "Nigeria bishop addresses the evils of Islamist extremism atSpeaking at the Aid to the Church in Need's Religious Freedom Report, Pietro Cardinal Parolin says that the violence against Christians in Nigeria is "not a religious conflict [of Muslim against Christians], but rather more a social one, for example, disputes between herders and
