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18. A good reminder that authoritarians use authority to preserve the system that preserves them

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 12:12 PM

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And I'm not saying anything bad about the Pontiff.

He's operating well inside the rules of the institution which were created to preserve the institution's authority and traditions of control.

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They're dangerous to the general population. rubbersole Thursday #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 Thursday #11

Shady Vance would have to find another religion again. wnylib Thursday #44

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

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ABSOLUTELY! Jilly_in_VA Thursday #26

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Awww, thank you MustLoveBeagles! hlthe2b Thursday #43

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

I have long believed... GiqueCee Thursday #14

Vance and the KKKatholic Kourt. usonian Thursday #9

Damn! GiqueCee Thursday #12

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

I thought... GiqueCee Thursday #16

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

AHA! GiqueCee Thursday #19

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

Good point! GiqueCee Thursday #37

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

Dead languages evolve too. hunter Thursday #39

mea culpa rampartd Thursday #42

I know Latin from biology not the law. hunter Thursday #46

Go Leo! Crack that whip! liberalla Thursday #13

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

sspx : this schism goes back to like 1970 rampartd Thursday #45

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

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

It might depend on when the church was built and named. TommyT139 23 hrs ago #51

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

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

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

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

There's a multi-part documentary on HBO TommyT139 23 hrs ago #50

Exciting times bucolic_frolic Thursday #27

Good. blm Thursday #28

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

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

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

Good. hunter Thursday #40

I was hoping Vance had been Baptized into Catholicism by SSPX. pat_k Thursday #47