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Mike Lewis
@mfjlewis.bsky.social
· Mar 24
When the Scales Fell from Our Conservative Catholic Eyes
There’s something that many right-wing Catholics—especially those who fiercely oppose Pope Francis—don’t seem to understand about people like me: we were once part of their world. We admired the same ...
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What once was unthinkable—publicly accusing the pope of heresy or implying he is a danger to the faith—is now routine in certain circles.
For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
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For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
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Former Sacramento priest Jeremy Leatherby was excommunicated and laicized in 2020. Then he disappeared from the public eye. But that wasn't the end of his breakaway movement. He was just getting started.
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From Sacramento to the End of the World
Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto issued a canonical warning on June 1, 2026, to retired Deacon David Leatherby Jr. of his diocese. In the decree, the bishop said he had been informed that Deacon Leatherby...
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September 3, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Former Sacramento priest Jeremy Leatherby was excommunicated and laicized in 2020. Then he disappeared from the public eye. But that wasn't the end of his breakaway movement. He was just getting started.
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Leo XIII's famous encyclical "Rerum Novarum" --
Did you know that you could arguably translate it "Of Revolution"?
"Res novae" is more than "new things"; it's also a Latin euphemism for "revolution" that got taken up by Catholics.
#Linguistics #ClassicsTwitter
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Did you know that you could arguably translate it "Of Revolution"?
"Res novae" is more than "new things"; it's also a Latin euphemism for "revolution" that got taken up by Catholics.
#Linguistics #ClassicsTwitter
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Magnifica Humanitas’s Latin Snag
On Latin, translation, and accessibility in classical languages.
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June 13, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Leo XIII's famous encyclical "Rerum Novarum" --
Did you know that you could arguably translate it "Of Revolution"?
"Res novae" is more than "new things"; it's also a Latin euphemism for "revolution" that got taken up by Catholics.
#Linguistics #ClassicsTwitter
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Did you know that you could arguably translate it "Of Revolution"?
"Res novae" is more than "new things"; it's also a Latin euphemism for "revolution" that got taken up by Catholics.
#Linguistics #ClassicsTwitter
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Here’s an Interesting article written by a former SSPX Priest adding his thoughts.
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Thoughts of a former SSPX priest on the July 1 consecrations
It is well known that the schismatic Society of Saint Pius X plans to consecrate four bishops on July 1, 2026, in Écône, Switzerland — despite being warned explicitly that to do so would incur excommu...
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June 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Here’s an Interesting article written by a former SSPX Priest adding his thoughts.
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As a Middle Earth lover, I've always thought the obsession that a set of tech oligarchs appear to have with Tolkien is based on a shallow sense of Tolkien being "cool," with no literary appreciation of his work.
Now it seems the Pope agrees!
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Now it seems the Pope agrees!
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Is Pope Leo’s Gandalf quote a dig at Peter Thiel?
J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork The Lord of the Rings has made it into Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical — and the reference reads like a veiled rebuke of Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Tolk...
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May 29, 2026 at 9:03 PM
As a Middle Earth lover, I've always thought the obsession that a set of tech oligarchs appear to have with Tolkien is based on a shallow sense of Tolkien being "cool," with no literary appreciation of his work.
Now it seems the Pope agrees!
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Now it seems the Pope agrees!
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A cardinal fires his exorcist, the Vice President calls UFOs demons, a new Spielberg blockbuster opens — and a network of Catholic exorcists and influencers told their audiences it was the devil's opening move.
Inside the latest satanic panic.
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Inside the latest satanic panic.
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Deception Day: New Spielberg film stirs a satanic panic
In February, President Donald Trump announced that he would declassify the government’s confidential files on UFOs — or unidentified aerial phenomena — and have the Pentagon post them online on a roll...
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June 17, 2026 at 2:22 AM
A cardinal fires his exorcist, the Vice President calls UFOs demons, a new Spielberg blockbuster opens — and a network of Catholic exorcists and influencers told their audiences it was the devil's opening move.
Inside the latest satanic panic.
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Inside the latest satanic panic.
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Reposted by Mike Lewis
New one by me. I trace the roots of today’s Catholic outrage machine, from post–Vatican II prophecy culture to online conspiracy networks, and show how “bricolage” thinking helps explain why certain narratives spread so fast on Catholic social media.
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Bricolage and the Battle for the Catholic Imagination
Catholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries — miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
New one by me. I trace the roots of today’s Catholic outrage machine, from post–Vatican II prophecy culture to online conspiracy networks, and show how “bricolage” thinking helps explain why certain narratives spread so fast on Catholic social media.
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The Vatican offered the SSPX dialogue. The SSPX (updated) said no.
A look at five decades of refusal — and why antisemitism, abuse, and an unrepentant culture make reconciliation impossible and probably undesirable.
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A look at five decades of refusal — and why antisemitism, abuse, and an unrepentant culture make reconciliation impossible and probably undesirable.
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The SSPX: Could It Have Gone Any Other Way?
Update: The SSPX has formally declined the offer of dialogue. Last Wednesday, I published a backgrounder on the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), in which I attempted to lay out why the SSPX’s planned con...
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February 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The Vatican offered the SSPX dialogue. The SSPX (updated) said no.
A look at five decades of refusal — and why antisemitism, abuse, and an unrepentant culture make reconciliation impossible and probably undesirable.
wherepeteris.com/the-sspx-cou...
A look at five decades of refusal — and why antisemitism, abuse, and an unrepentant culture make reconciliation impossible and probably undesirable.
wherepeteris.com/the-sspx-cou...
New one by me. I trace the roots of today’s Catholic outrage machine, from post–Vatican II prophecy culture to online conspiracy networks, and show how “bricolage” thinking helps explain why certain narratives spread so fast on Catholic social media.
wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...
wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...
Bricolage and the Battle for the Catholic Imagination
Catholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries — miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures...
wherepeteris.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
New one by me. I trace the roots of today’s Catholic outrage machine, from post–Vatican II prophecy culture to online conspiracy networks, and show how “bricolage” thinking helps explain why certain narratives spread so fast on Catholic social media.
wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...
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Reposted by Mike Lewis
A long read but Mike Lewis has something here in this analytical framework drawing from Lévi-Strauss. Recommended.
"John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts"
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"John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts"
wherepeteris.com/bricolage-an...
Bricolage and the Battle for the Catholic Imagination
Catholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries — miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures...
wherepeteris.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A long read but Mike Lewis has something here in this analytical framework drawing from Lévi-Strauss. Recommended.
"John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts"
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"John Paul II insisted that truth requires unity of faith and reason — precisely the unity that bricolage disrupts"
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This is an excellent piece by @mfjlewis.bsky.social... Really hard to believe @usccbofficial.bsky.social's commitment with migrants...
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Concerns Over Archbishop Coakley’s Election as USCCB President
BALTIMORE — In a closely contested vote at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) fall plenary assembly in Baltimore on November 11, 2025, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City was ele...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is an excellent piece by @mfjlewis.bsky.social... Really hard to believe @usccbofficial.bsky.social's commitment with migrants...
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Time for some real talk.
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
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Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
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Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass
Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Time for some real talk.
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
Time for some real talk.
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass
Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...
wherepeteris.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Time for some real talk.
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
wherepeteris.com/straight-ans...
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This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
August 23, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
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The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
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False orthodoxy and fired professors
Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...
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July 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...
wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...
False orthodoxy and fired professors
Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...
wherepeteris.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...
wherepeteris.com/false-orthod...
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"Ultimately, The Sacred Heart: A Love for All Times by Dawn Eden Goldstein is more than a book about a devotion; it’s a heartfelt invitation to draw closer to Jesus Christ, whose Sacred Heart remains open to each of us."
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
June 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Ultimately, The Sacred Heart: A Love for All Times by Dawn Eden Goldstein is more than a book about a devotion; it’s a heartfelt invitation to draw closer to Jesus Christ, whose Sacred Heart remains open to each of us."
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
— @mfjlewis.bsky.social in @wherepeteris.com. wherepeteris.com/rediscoverin....
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Trad: “DO SOMETHING Bishops! Less dialogue, more keys! Man up!"
Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on”
Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"
Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on”
Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Trad: “DO SOMETHING Bishops! Less dialogue, more keys! Man up!"
Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on”
Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"
Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on”
Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"
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I see that the Bishop of Winona-Rochester has announced and named his quarrel with "the extreme Catholic left." I presume he means the "woke" Catholics.
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
June 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I see that the Bishop of Winona-Rochester has announced and named his quarrel with "the extreme Catholic left." I presume he means the "woke" Catholics.
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear sister Kate. I wrote this two days after she died.
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My Sister’s Heart
One of the most formative events of my life happened a year before I was born. When she was about six weeks old, my sister Katie—my parents’ firstborn, the answer to prayer after years of infertility—...
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May 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear sister Kate. I wrote this two days after she died.
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“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes:
Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag
To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.
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April 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes:
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Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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Strickland, Altman, and the Making of a Parallel Church
Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronit...
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March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
Strickland, Altman, and the Making of a Parallel Church
Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronit...
wherepeteris.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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wherepeteris.com/strickland-a...
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My brother, Dr. Joseph Stuart, was on Paul Fahey's podcast, a discussion about Pope Francis' letter on the renewal of the study of Church history
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16: Joseph Stuart - Renewing Church History
In today’s episode, I had a great conversation with Dr.
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March 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
My brother, Dr. Joseph Stuart, was on Paul Fahey's podcast, a discussion about Pope Francis' letter on the renewal of the study of Church history
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...