A nice starter at a favorite place near The Parish™: Pizza bianca with sliced beef tongue, homemade mayonnaise and a slightly vinegary sauce of herbs. I’d have this any day of the week… except most Fridays.
Holy Mass today will be offered for my benefactors, those who regularly donate, donate occasionally, or send items from my wish list. This week a couple of readers sent cans of tuna and another bottles of a hot sauce recommended by an exorcist… which makes you think a little. In any event, it is my pleasure and duty to pray for my benefactors. And when I hear that one has passed away, I keep them on my list.
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Not sure what this means, but it seems not good.
A Chinese engineer hired by Elon Musk uploaded xAI’s entire codebase to OpenAI, then left the company and sold $7 million worth of stock.
According to Musk, Xuechen Li took a job offer at OpenAI before uploading the code.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/0xvI0X6ROA
— AF Post (@AFpost) August 30, 2025
And…
This is not Catholicism, but a kind of papal voluntarism that makes the pope the master rather than the servant of the deposit of faith. Essentially, it takes the Protestant idea of private judgment and applies it to the pope, reducing doctrine to papal subjective preference. https://t.co/kfFYHQz10X
— Edward Feser (@FeserEdward) August 31, 2025
And…
Step into the symbolic world of 12th century illuminated manuscripts!
The Averbode Gospel Book (c. 1170-80) places two stunning full-page miniatures before Luke’s Gospel, each depicting Old Testament scenes that medieval artists saw as foreshadowing Christ’s crucifixion.
The… pic.twitter.com/uHUkoIYKDv— Vir Desideriorum (@VirDesideriorum) August 31, 2025
In chessy news… I see that the Global Chess League will start up again in a 3rd Season in India during December. And the Duck Chess Championship is coming up this week at chess.com. Sign up! Maybe we can get some readers going…. for standard, not duck chess.
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Pope Liberius? Pope John XXII?
Surely these people are literate. Maybe they should pick up a history book before deciding what is and isn’t Papal teaching Ex Cathedra.
Or maybe they tweet using text-to-speech…
“Therefore, faithfully adhering to the tradition received from the beginning of the christian faith, to the glory of God our savior, for the exaltation of the Catholic religion and for the salvation of the christian people, with the approval of the Sacred Council, we teach and define as a divinely revealed dogma that when the Roman Pontiff speaks EX CATHEDRA, that is, when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church, he possesses, by the divine assistance promised to him in blessed Peter, that infallibility which the divine Redeemer willed his Church to enjoy in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. Therefore, such definitions of the Roman Pontiff are of themselves, and not by the consent of the Church, irreformable.
So then, should anyone, which God forbid, have the temerity to reject this definition of ours: let him be anathema.”
The Cavalier: You are clearly asking too much of them.
Can’t resist commenting on beef tongue.
Years ago when our children were young, my brother in law and I were left to take care of the children. They were about a dozen. We had the day before slaughtered my brother in laws cow at a near by farm. That morning we picked up the liver and tongue. When lunch time came I sliced the cow tongue thin and my brother in law cooked it. Our children were all excited eating steak. When the had eaten their fill I told them it was cow tongue and they started wailing. I said to them, you loved it before you knew. They still joke about to this day.
The idiotic argument that if the Pooe says it it must be correct reminds me of something I heard in the video about Archbishop Levebrve’s life. Apparently when ordered by Paul VI to teach his students the NO, he said that if he moves toward Paul VI, he must move away from Pius XII. This is to me a catch-22, an impossible choice and clearly shows either the pre-conciliar Popes were in error regarding the Mass or the post conciliar are.
Before Pope Francis, apologists spilled a lot of ink to insist that no Pope had ever officially taught false doctrine. For instance, Pope Honorious failed to defend the flock, and erred outside of official correspondence. Pope John XXII erred in homilies as a private person. Pope Liberius acted under duress.
But with Pope Francis we have apparent error in encyclicals, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. I see the obvious distinction that these are not instances of ex cathedra decrees, but I struggle with how we are called to approach these problematic teachings with our duty to give religious submission of the intellect and the will. I suppose it is enough to say it is a qualified submission, but that doesn’t sit well with me.
How long O Lord, before these things are corrected?