An attractive young woman blasted out of her mind will say something utterly delusional into a random guy’s microphone at 2am and we’ll be stuck with a discourse that lasts three weeks and results in 17 hospitalizations
What’s the lowest amount of money a man should spend on a wedding ring?
Brunette says 500k: “Take your mama’s life savings, take your life savings, take your grandma’s life savings and get me a rock”
Blonde says “There is no price limit, whatever the f**k i pick out”
Louisiana: incredible symbolism, I love it, but it's unfortunately a bit too complicated/inconsistently printed
I love this redesign which simplifies the pelican into a fleur de lys and draws attention to it feeding blood to its young
some are asking for a disclaimer so
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for all the legitimate grievances someone can have against the Church—particularly in Ireland—it is funny people consistently pick “they build and then bless hospitals”
again, I’m not a convert, but I feel like people never quite mastered when the kneeler went up or down shouldn’t try claiming an identity they explicitly reject
Why should non Catholics who don't want to have to deal with weird Catholic hangups have to miss out on seeing a bunch of art? The church should not be able to gate off important cultural sites
Young Native Americans arrive at the UCLA “Liberated Zone” with a sign saying:
“Hamas supporters aren’t welcome on Native lands”
The Hamas supporters physically attack them
In Scripture, a pastor was NOT a guy who stood behind a pulpit,in a church building, holding a Bible,preaching to a crowd.
There were no church bldgs until the 4th century
No pulpits until the 9th century
No printed Bibles til the 15th
A pastor was a small group (house) leader!
On this date 10 years ago, an elderly Jesuit priest allowed me to skip a hour of class so he could breathlessly and privately relay that JFK was assassinated specifically for being a Boston Catholic. He died a short time later. I carry his testimony with me always
Bishop Michael Olson of Fort Worth has told a monastery of Carmelite nuns that daily Mass and confessions "cannot be conveniently provided" until they drop their lawsuit against him.
I’m in Vicksburg, Mississippi at the grave of Old Douglas, the Confederate Camel who was shot and killed by a Union sharpshooter during the siege of Vicksburg in June 1863
One of the funnier things about English privateering is that if they stole Spanish religious iconography they’d often put it up in their otherwise bare churches. Boston has a few parishes of Puritan heritage haphazardly adorned with baroque cherubs
It’s not like the Vatican comms office has access to the largest legacy of public domain art that depicts exactly the same thing without being the work of a known evil abuser
In recent days, a meeting with top officials of the
#Vatican
Dicastery for Communications “concluded that there was nothing to prevent the continued use of
#Rupnik
’s mosaics. They said the work should stand on its own merits & be dissociated from the personal life of the artist.”
And here is the issue no one wants to seriously address: the central, defining element of Roman Catholic worship is the "Eucharistic sacrifice." The Mass. And Rome's doctrine of the Mass is dependent, in the main, upon one man, and one man's metaphysics and theology: that man is
there’s really no room for even tepidly accepting “ok, maybe it’s trauma processing” anymore. it’s obviously always bad-faith and intentionally attacking the more vulnerable
hey longshot but if you know a woman named Sadie who was on Yorktown beach on Saturday night, plz lmk! She caught a video of me proposing but I totally flubbed my contact info
Please pray for a young man named Jason, who entered the nondenom chapel expecting a yoga class and only found me stumbling through Compline. He is very hungry for the Lord and promised to pray for me despite no longer being Christian in practice
A High Court in Karnataka decreed that civil courts have jurisdiction to hear the case, in which plaintiffs are demanding that at least one Mass be offered in Konkani, a language spoken by roughly two million people along India’s western coast.
there is no-one obviously less deserving of political citizenship than a Catholic. like any religion it is a confession of unsoundness and incompatible with responsibility or authority of any kind. Catholicism should be energetically suppressed