Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓

@PetriOP · Louisville, KY · joined 14 Oct 2011

Dominican Friar | Doctor of Sacred Theology | Missionary of Mercy | Fidelity & Clarity on Catholic Doctrine & Life in the Church | Made in Detroit - Aged in KY

52 986Followers

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163.6KViews on collected posts

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Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP5 Sep

The Overton window has shifted. We’ve been saying this for years. Perhaps hearing it from @americamag may break through to the clerics who still need to hear this. 17.4K views · 312 likes · 19 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP4 Sep

Confession: I was at this game with another priest. Reader, I am ashamed to tell you that we left after the 8th inning. 8.2K views · 139 likes · 2 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP3 Sep

Priests who depart from the rubrics of the Mass may mean well. But Catholics should consider why both Popes Leo and Francis have called such deviations a problem. https://t.co/cG2kTZd6qh 27.8K views · 94 likes · 12 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP3 Sep

The goal of the Christian life isn't simply to “get into heaven” and avoid hell. Salvation is ultimately binary—we either enjoy the vision of God or we don't—but the life of grace isn't. St. Paul says that we are being transformed into the likeness of Christ “from one degree of 35.1K views · 975 likes · 131 reposts · 26 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP1 Sep

A persistent peeve since I entered seminary 30 years ago: condescension. Forgetting that the lay faithful deal with complex matters in every other aspect of their lives, but the default of ecclesial leadership on various levels is that they can’t do so in matters of faith. 16K views · 349 likes · 24 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP1 Sep

@GilesHeather77 @SohrabAhmari It’s strange how so many “pastoral” approaches to the laity stem from first thinking poorly of the laity. “Oh, the laity couldn’t possibly handle XYZ”, as if they’re all kindergartners needing to be coddled and not grown adults 18.7K views · 179 likes · 5 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP7 Feb

@PetriOP For some reason, this morning, StellaSF contemplating on the words of the late friar Fr. Felix Cassidy, OP (SF) when she asked for his thoughts on her book report on capital punishment. Having grown up in Pacific Heights (SF) on Green Street, he had the vantage view of A 92 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP6 Feb

@PetriOP Dominicans give great homilies. 168 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP6 Feb

@PetriOP One of the principal ways we can save the young is by telling them that masturbation is grave sin, mortal. Sexual frustration is 90% starting out to self-pleasure. But who does that? Unmarried men can cruise through life relatively easily if they just don't start. 437 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Fr. Thomas Petri OP ✓@PetriOP6 Feb

Dominican friar & theologian. Papal Missionary of Mercy. I post on: • Catholic doctrine (clear, faithful, practical) • Prayer & the spiritual life • Liturgy & life in the Church • Culture in the light of the Catholic faith • Occasional reflections from priestly life Follow 39.8K views · 689 likes · 45 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

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6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views18 014this account916median for 10K–100K

Reach, %34.00%this account3.48%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.92%this account1.95%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	18 014	916	19.7×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	34.00%	3.48%	9.77×
Engagement rate	1.92%	1.95%	0.98×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

39.8K6 Feb

437

168

927 Feb

18.7K1 Sep

16K

35.1K3 Sep

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8.2K4 Sep

17.4K5 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.89%6 Feb

0.69%

0.60%

2.17%7 Feb

1.07%1 Sep

2.51%

3.27%3 Sep

0.50%

1.84%4 Sep

1.99%5 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.95%.

What the audience does

Likes79.6%2 742 in total

Reposts6.9%239 in total

Replies3.4%117 in total

Quotes1.2%41 in total

Bookmarks8.9%305 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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