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GiqueCee

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14. I have long believed...

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 11:45 AM

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... that conservatism by any metric, be it political or religious, belongs at the Dark End of the sociopathy spectrum. So yeah, I agree 100% that they have some short-circuited synapses somewhere.

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Vatican cracks down on a traditionalist group by excommunicating its bishops [View all] dalton99a Yesterday OP

Take Down Opus Dei next! Chasstev365 Yesterday #1

+1 dalton99a Yesterday #2

They're dangerous to the general population. rubbersole Yesterday #8

Beat me to it. He does that, and ill be back in there the following sunday with a hundred bucks in my hand. Volaris Yesterday #11

Shady Vance would have to find another religion again. wnylib 23 hrs ago #44

Excommunicate Opus Dei SCOTUS and JD Vance next... hlthe2b Yesterday #3

This! 👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Yesterday #6

ABSOLUTELY! Jilly_in_VA Yesterday #26

This MustLoveBeagles Yesterday #41

Awww, thank you MustLoveBeagles! hlthe2b 23 hrs ago #43

Dang. This Pope might get me back into a church Prairie Gates Yesterday #4

A teaching moment for the US left. If you have the power and you're negotiating with assholes, you're losing. harumph Yesterday #5

Religious fundamentalists of all faiths are made of the same cloth. sop Yesterday #7

this. fanatics (of all breed and stripe) are dangerous stopdiggin Yesterday #10

I have long believed... GiqueCee Yesterday #14

Vance and the KKKatholic Kourt. usonian Yesterday #9

Damn! GiqueCee Yesterday #12

I think it's in Italian, not Latin. nt Wednesdays Yesterday #15

I thought... GiqueCee Yesterday #16

Italian is the working and administrative language of the Vatican. dalton99a Yesterday #17

AHA! GiqueCee Yesterday #19

why a dead language is good for enduring concepts rampartd Yesterday #36

Good point! GiqueCee Yesterday #37

it is why so much law and medicine still use a dead language. rampartd Yesterday #38

Dead languages evolve too. hunter Yesterday #39

mea culpa rampartd Yesterday #42

I know Latin from biology not the law. hunter 22 hrs ago #46

Go Leo! Crack that whip! liberalla Yesterday #13

A good reminder that authoritarians use authority to preserve the system that preserves them 31j20b3 Yesterday #18

Non-authoritarians occasionally have to resort to hard leveraging of rules and options harumph Yesterday #20

Yes, especially in a case like this wherein a handful out of thousands of priests 31j20b3 Yesterday #21

Oh, I see where you're coming from. harumph Yesterday #22

I suppose it's also a question of shoe-size 31j20b3 Yesterday #23

Agreed. That's often the case. harumph Yesterday #24

Yep, and our troubling problem is the few caught on a very long time ago 31j20b3 Yesterday #25

sspx : this schism goes back to like 1970 rampartd 23 hrs ago #45

Would a Catholic church named St Pius X be part of that group or not doyou think? mahina 18 hrs ago #48

i've never knowingly met any of these guys, or any opus dei for that matter rampartd 17 hrs ago #49

It might depend on when the church was built and named. TommyT139 6 hrs ago #51

You don't understand that this fascist group is the one blm Yesterday #30

Could use a proper name for "this fascist group" just so I can be sure 31j20b3 Yesterday #31

TFP. Tradition-Family-Property. They are like the commoner base for Opus Dei elites. blm Yesterday #33

Thanks. I didn't know about TFP, but I'm aware of pfople pushing that 31j20b3 Yesterday #34

There's a multi-part documentary on HBO TommyT139 6 hrs ago #50

Exciting times bucolic_frolic Yesterday #27

Good. blm Yesterday #28

Not just the bishops - anyone who "habitually participates" in the society and "formally shares its positions" muriel_volestrangler Yesterday #29

This isn't even the first time SSPX has pulled these shenanigans... sir pball Yesterday #32

Exactly. I was horrified when Benedict removed restrictions on them. blm Yesterday #35

Good. hunter Yesterday #40

I was hoping Vance had been Baptized into Catholicism by SSPX. pat_k 22 hrs ago #47