#CatholicChurch
What surprises me is that people will come right out and tell you that they’re Catholic, without any shame at all. #ChildAbuse #ReligiousAbuse #CatholicChurch
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/st-louis-catholic-archdiocese-sexual-abuse-lawsuit
June 9, 2023
Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
A True Image of Christ
Mark 12:35–36
The “so much more” is the part we must focus on as we consider the identity of our Lord. We must see Him as God, the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity. As God, He is to be worshiped and adored. And though He was God from all eternity,
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/08/a-true-image-of-christ-2/
Settlements end $100M class action lawsuit by alleged Manitoulin Island abuse survivors
A $100 million class action lawsuit launched on behalf of alleged victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Manitoulin Island has been abandoned after the victims reached individual settlements with the church.
#RomanCatholicChurch #CatholicChurch #Catholic #clergy #SexAbuse #pedophilia #SexCrimes #hypocrisy #NovaScotia #ArchdioceseofHalifaxYarmouth
June 8, 23
Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
The Gift of Understanding
Mark 12:34
In order to truly understand that which our Lord speaks to us, we must be open. And openness requires humility. Humility is a virtue that is contrary to a “know-it-all” attitude. It’s a disposition of mind and heart that listens to God speak,
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/07/the-gift-of-understanding-3/
June 7, 2023
Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
The Wisdom of God
Mark 12:18–20
In this Gospel passage, the problem with the Sadducees seems to be scrupulosity and rigidity in their approach to the faith. They clearly relied upon human reason, and they applied their human reason to the Torah. And though human reason and
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/06/the-wisdom-of-god-2/
A #Religious #School That’s Also a #PublicSchool.
Oklahoma’s #Unconstutional decision to allow the #Catholicchurch to operate a #publicschool continues a winning streak for #religious #conservatives.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/briefing/oklahoma-religious-school.html
June 6, 2023
Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Readings for Today
Combating the Deceptions of the World
Mk 12:14–15
Have you ever been confronted by the trickery of the secular “know-it-alls” of our age. Have you ever been challenged by another, had your faith directly attacked or your moral convictions called into question?
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/05/combating-the-deceptions-of-the-world-2/
June 5, 2023
Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
Exercising Authority
Mark 12:1–3
This parable is especially important for anyone who exercises some form of holy authority. Parents exercise authority within the home. Bishops and priests exercise authority within the Church. And we all exercise a certain spiritual authority when
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/04/exercising-authority/
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
The Essence of the Most Holy Trinity
Matthew 28:19–20 (Year B Gospel)
Of all the great feasts we celebrate within the Church throughout the year, today’s Solemnity presents us with a Mystery that is so deep and transcendent that our eternity will be spent in perpetual
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/03/the-essence-of-the-most-holy-trinity-2/
Catholic Church still actively supporting and collaborating with Nazis and fascists in Croatia and, as in so many other cases around the world, still lying about deaths they had a hand in (in this case, as in the Magdalene laundries in Ireland they're pretending hundreds of dead people don't exist as if they can lie them out of existence). Warning for the article, which is about the desecration of a Partisan memorial.
#Christianity #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #fascism #nazis #antifascism #partisans #Croatia #Yugoslavia
June 3, 2023
Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
The Danger of Obstinacy
Mark 11:29–30
The question Jesus asked them was actually an act of great mercy on His part. He gave them an opportunity to repent. If they had only answered His question with humble faith and honesty, they could have saved their lives. Instead, they
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/02/the-danger-of-obstinacy-2/
A #FirstNations community wants the #CatholicChurch to leave because of an active #pedophilepriest. The "church" should get out and pray for their own salvation. #indigenous #cdnpoli #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/first-nations-roman-catholic-priest-sexual-assault-1.6861972
June 2, 2023
Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
A Rebuke by Jesus
Mark 11:12–14
If our Lord were to come to you, as He came to this fig tree, what would He find?
Being a Christian is not something that is exclusively between you and God. Being a Christian requires that you be so given over to the service of God and others
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/06/01/a-rebuke-by-jesus-2/
June 1, 2023
Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
Crying Out to Jesus
Mark 10:46–47
Bartimaeus gives us here a double witness of how we must turn to our Lord. First, we must sense His gentle but clear presence within our soul. We must recognize His voice and His promptings of grace. He wants to heal us, and His presence in
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#June
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/31/crying-out-to-jesus-2/
The Philippines is the only place outside the Vatican where divorce is outlawed, with the Catholic Church — which holds great influence on Philippine society — opposing the practice as against its teachings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/31/asia-pacific/social-issues-asia-pacific/filipinos-right-to-divorce/?utm_content=buffer6a4c5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #asiapacific #philippines #catholicchurch #divorce
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Joy at the Presence of the Lord
Luke 1:39–42
The beautiful feast we celebrate today depicts two miraculous pregnancies. One came about by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit. The other was the miraculous conception in the womb of a woman who was advanced in
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/30/joy-at-the-presence-of-the-lord-2/
Priest charged in alleged sexual assault of 8-year-old girl on Manitoba First Nation
Arul Savari has been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation of a young person, luring a child and forcible confinement.
@newsfromitaly If it feels like a cover up, smells like a cover up, looks like a cover up, it's probably a cover up! I guess the Catholic Church needs well over US$100B to pay for all those cover ups. 🤦♂️
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_religious_organizations
May 30, 2023
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
An Exchange of Gifts
This was not a belittling of Peter’s self-sacrifice; rather, it was a form of encouragement by Jesus. He was encouraging Peter, and the other disciples, to have full confidence in their decision to follow Him. Their sacrifice would yield a hundredfold return.
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/29/an-exchange-of-gifts-2/
Why aren’t #African countries doing more against #sexualassault offenders and #sexpats #People who travel to countries for #Sex #SexTourism as the #SocialMedia #PassportBros are in #Africa and posting photos from #Tanzania
#SexualPredators #CatholicChurch #SexualAssault #RapeCulture #Rape
#Crime #Criminal https://vocal.media/theSwamp/african-nations-need-to-punish-sex-criminals-esp-catholic-priests-passport-bros-clergy-and-rapists
Monday, May 29, 2023
Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church
Monday after Pentecost
Your Heavenly Mother
John 19:25–27
The memorial we celebrate today, which was added to the Roman Liturgical Calendar in 2018 by Pope Francis, highlights the truth that the Blessed Virgin Mary is not only the
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/28/your-heavenly-mother-2/
PENTECOST SUNDAY | MAY 28
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC, AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH ☝️ 🙏
We're all familiar with our own birthdays, and we celebrate them because they mark the day of the year in which we entered into this life. But did you know you have a second birthday?
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster #Pentecost
May 28, 2023
Solemnity of Pentecost Sunday (Yr A)
The Age of the Holy Spirit
Acts 2:2–4
And with that, the Church was born. Today we celebrate the Solemnity of Pentecost which, in many ways, was the culmination of the mission of Christ. The pinnacle of His mission will come at the end of time when He returns
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster #Pentecost
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/27/the-age-of-the-holy-spirit/
Rampant child sexual abuse is occurring in churches — not at drag shows https://on.msnbc.com/3C08srx #IllinoisAG #CatholicChurch #SexualAbuse #Children #LGBTQ #DragShows #ilpoli
May 27, 2023
Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
A Holy Awe
John 21:24–25
As John concludes His testimony about Jesus, he states something worth pondering. He states that Jesus did so many things that were not recorded by him or others, that if they were all written down, the whole world would not contain the books
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/26/a-holy-awe-2/
May 26, 2023
Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
True Love
John 21:18–19
Clearly, Jesus sees suffering differently than most of us. For Jesus, suffering is not opposed to love when the suffering is freely embraced for a higher purpose. Suffering in and of itself is of no value. But when suffering is embraced
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/25/true-love-2/
well well well
they still at it (again), Kyle at his best discussing this.
2,000 Kids ABUSED By Catholic Church: Investigation | The Kyle Kulinski Show
8 min video
tell me again how God is existential to moral probity, because on the basis of behavior the church and conservatives are completely devoid of any grace.
May 25, 2023
Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Gestures of Love
John 17:20–21
Jesus’ act of “Lifting his eyes to heaven” was not done because He thought He might see the Father in the sky; rather, it was done out of respect and love and as a way of acknowledging the dignity of the Father.
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/24/gestures-of-love-2/
I don't think I'm saying anything controversial by reiterating that the Catholic Church deserves to be mocked. #SistersofPerpetualIndulgence #CatholicChurch
How much credibility has an institution like the Catholic church judging on issues like abortion, while covering up & not drawing necessary conclusions from obviously system-induced mass child sex abuse by its clergy?
"451 Catholic clergy abused children, Illinois AG report says"
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/religion/ct-attorney-general-catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-investigation-20230523-6dei756genga7bedpdatv2j3yi-story.html
#RuleOfLaw #SaveLives #SaveTheChildren #CatholicChurch #SexualAssault #ChildAbuse #ChurchReform #SeparationOfChurchAndState
May 24, 2023
Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Rejecting the evil one
John 17:14–15
In his rules for the discernment of spirits, Saint Ignatius of Loyola explains that when a person is going “from mortal sin to mortal sin,” the evil one and the other demons continually propose to their imagination the “apparent
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/23/rejecting-the-evil-one-2/
May 22, 2023
Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Peace? Or the World?
John 16:33
One of the most manifest troubles inflicted upon many by the world comes in the form of constant visual, auditory and mental stimulation. Our world is a noisy world. Modern electronics, the mass media, commercials, radio, Internet,
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/21/peace-or-the-world-2/
Would Brook have treated me differently if she knew I was bisexual? Would she keep the smile but secretly “pray” for my soul and believe that, unless I repented, I would go to Hell?
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-the-pope-needs-to-do-for-lgbtq-people-but-wont-24a701af9769?sk=4149c35731ba7ebe99d08888af0e13fd
#LGBTQ #CatholicChurch #Religion #PopeFrancis
@Catmama @woolie @ohunt @SrRochardBunson #FACT: The #CatholicChurch has this issue so rampant that it's not considered "Incitement of violence and hatred against a group" by calling it #ChildfuckerCult in #Germany according to a court decision...
I'm not making this up btw...
https://www.lawblog.de/archives/2012/02/11/katholische-kirche-darf-kinderficker-sekte-genannt-werden/
May 21, 2023
Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord (Year A)
Matthew 28:18–20
When you look into your own conscience, what do you see? Do you see a person with perfect faith and trust in God? Or do you see a person who seeks to worship God but also struggles with doubts? A doubt is a lack of faith.
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster #Ascension
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/17/dispelling-doubts/
May 20, 2023
Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
The Love of the Father Revealed
John 16:25
The message of the Cross is a true teaching about the love of the Father. It’s a teaching that took place through an act of the most pure and sacrificial love imaginable. The Cross was Jesus speaking “clearly about the Father”
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/19/the-love-of-the-father-revealed-2/
Little Marco is defending the Catholic Church and their child molestation.
May 19, 2023
Friday of the Sixth Sunday of Easter
The “Labor Pains” of God’s Will
John 16:21
Anguish, or any form of suffering, can tempt us to question our lives & even to question God. It is clear that after Jesus was killed, the disciples questioned everything. They were confused & frightened. All appeared to be lost.
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/18/the-labor-pains-of-gods-will/
May 18, 2023
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Deepening Your Understanding
John 16:17–18
How about you? Do you know what Jesus means? Or do you find that you are confused by what He said just like these disciples were? Though pride may tempt you to claim that you fully understand all that Jesus taught, the humble and
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/17/dispelling-doubts/#thursday
May 17, 2023
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
The Best is Yet to Come
John 16:12–13
This teaching of our Lord begs the question: Have you begun the process? Have you begun to allow the Holy Spirit to guide you into the truth? Have there been concrete moments in your life when you came to know God in a new and
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/16/the-best-is-yet-to-come-2/
List of Catholic-operated Native Boarding Schools in the United States, pre-1978, web resource.
"Our motivation for assembling this data was to provide a resource to help boarding school survivors, their descendants, Tribal Nations, and the Church itself navigate the history of Catholic involvement with Native boarding schools."
#USHistory #histodons #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #ChurchHistory #CatholicChurch #colonialism #ResidentialSchools @histodons
I don't know how to explain Ireland's Magdalene laundries (originally supposedly set up as training schools), or the Catholic Church's other "residential school" mass murders, beyond basic facts. There were many "Magdalene laundries". In Tuam they murdered at least 796 infants, about one baby every two weeks during the 36 years it existed, plus the women murdered through intentional neglect and malnutrition. Babies' bodies were disappeared into sewers. Another mass grave of 222 infants was found at another site in Dublin. This was outsourced mass murder by a government targeting particular demographics of people in exactly the same way as all other "residential school" genocides. I have no expertise in this subject but even I know that the Catholic Church was using "residential schools" to mass murder indigenous people in the Americas from the 1600s onwards, e.g. in what is now Paraguay (tellingly the Catholic Church "educated" thousands of indigenous Guarani people in concentration camps without producing one indigenous Catholic priest). The Jesuits are still trying to spin these mass murders as a positive contribution to society - there are Jesuits, amongst others, employed today by the Catholic Church to twist history and theology into forms in which murdering Catholic priests and nuns didn't commit crimes or sins and aren't, according to their own religion, being tortured in hell for all eternity (they were "following orders", which sounds familiar...). I condemn all these intentional evils: all the orders, and all the murders, and all the cover-ups.
#reading #books #Ireland #CatholicChurch #MagdaleneLaundry #MagdaleneLaundries #MagdalenLaundry #MagdalenLaundries #ResidentialSchool #ResidentialSchools #Paraguay #Guarani
I finished the 110 page novella Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan and it's brilliant, with not a word out of place. It's set in 1985 in the mind of one small town Irishman who, almost accidentally, lifts an accusatory finger against the abusive Magdalene laundries run by the Catholic Church (in reality they continued until 1996 - short rant under a cut in the next post). Keegan's only use of the word "legitimately", in the last sentence, is perfect.
Obligatory folk song note: The Croppy Boy sung within the story is the version (recorded by the Clancy Brothers) in which the young man is betrayed by his cousin and denied by his father: "My own first cousin did me betray / And for one bare guinea swore my life away" and "My aged father did me deny / And the name he gave me was the Croppy Boy." (A very different version of the song was used by James Joyce in Ulysses where Leopold Bloom attempts to avoid it.)
#reading #books #Ireland #CatholicChurch #MagdaleneLaundry #MagdaleneLaundries #MagdalenLaundry #MagdalenLaundries #FolkSong #FolkMusic #IrishMusic #IrishLiterature
Indigenous survivors say RCMP failed them while investigating abuse at Catholic day school | CBC News https://bit.ly/44YN5UU #RCMP #Indigenous #CatholicChurch #CHRT #Police #cdnpoli @cdnpoli
May 13, 2023
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Our Lady of Fatima
The Hatred of the World
Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world,
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/12/the-hatred-of-the-world-2/
Wave of anti-transgender bills in Republican-led states divides US faith leaders
#AssociatedPress
#CatholicChurch
#SouthernBaptistConvention
#UnionTheologicalSeminar
#AllSaintsPasadena
#MikeKinman
@I_Like_Books @SallyStrange @Archivist An issue in a lot of these #evangelical churches is a dependence on preachers to provide them with an interpretation of what the #Bible teaches instead of reading it for themselves. Ironically, this dependence on church authority is 1 of the main objections #protestants had with the #catholicchurch in the #Reformation.
I don't know about this "God is #Trans" business. It implies They're switching from one gender to another.
Now, if you were to say God is #Nonbinary, or even #Agender... We could really have a discussion there.
May 8, 2023
Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Remembering God’s Revelations
John 14:25–26
What lessons of faith have you learned in the past that you need to be reminded of? It is the role of the Holy Spirit to bring those lessons to mind every time we need them. Therefore, as we move closer to the glorious celebration
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/05/07/remembering-gods-revelations/
Cathedral of San Agustin in Laredo, Texas in a vintage style painting - wall art print poster :)
Get it from here: https://etsy.me/41nJXPr
#cathedralofsanagustin #catedraldesanagustín #laredocathedral #catholiccathedral #catholicchurch #laredo #laredotexas #webbcounty #laredotx #texas #downtownlaredo #sanagustindelaredo #buyintoart #buyart #ayearforart #artwork #art #vintage #church #artgallery #artprint #laredoart
"Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless." ❣️🙏
- Charles M. Crowe
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#May
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
April 28, 2023
Friday of the 3rd Week of Easter
A “Holy Fear”
John 6:53–55
Today’s Gospel tells us that failure to “eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood” results in death. Death is the loss of life, and the Eucharist is the source of life. Jesus says that if you fail to eat His Flesh and drink His Blood,
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#April
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
https://catholic-daily-reflections.com/2023/04/27/a-holy-fear-2/
"Connecting the dots for everyone who hasn't yet. These times are Biblical. Satan is hard at work but so is God!! 🙌🏽 "
CTTO
#God #Jesus #HolySpirit #Catholic #CatholicChurch #Catholicism #HolyEucharist #Christianity
#April
#Twitter #CatholicTwitter to #Mastodon
#HappyEaster
In a historic shift, Pope Francis allows women to vote at bishops' meetings
#CatholicChurch #PopeFrancis #WomensSuffrage #Women
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1172201884/pope-francis-women-vote-bishops-meetings
‘Lukashenko wallet’ used Catholic Church to evade EU sanctions https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/lukashenko-wallet-used-catholic-church-to-evade-eu-sanctions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AlexanderLukashenko #Belarus #Catholicchurch #EUsanctions
‘Lukashenko wallet’ used Catholic Church to evade EU sanctions https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/lukashenko-wallet-used-catholic-church-to-evade-eu-sanctions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AlexanderLukashenko #Belarus #Catholicchurch #EUsanctions
US judge who ruled in favor of church in key abuse case donated to archdiocese | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/21/new-orleans-church-donation-judge-clergy-abuse-victims
"Greg Guidry gave the New Orleans church thousands of dollars and now refuses to step down from a case involving 500 victims"
Report finds Freiburg's ex-archbishop covered up sex abuse
#Freiburg #CatholicChurch #sexualabuse #Germany #RobertZollitsch #ArchbishopRobertZollitsch #GermanBishopsConference
It’s pretty much a cultural given that fathers love their children and children reciprocate that love. There are obvious exceptions under fraught circumstances, but it’s more true than not.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/straight-father-and-gay-son-f2690104187
#LGBTQ #Parenting #Family #Masculinity #CatholicChurch
I mean there is an organization of men wearing dresses that groom kids but it is known as the #CatholicChurch
Oklahoma board rejects first taxpayer-funded religious school in US
"An Oklahoma school board on Tuesday unanimously rejected the Catholic Church's application to create the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the U.S., taking a first step toward a long legal battle testing the concept of separation of church and state."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/oklahoma-vote-first-religious-charter-school-us-2023-04-11/
#Politics #USPol #Oklahoma #Religion #Schools #CatholicChurch #News #Reuters
The #Vatican needs to do more, said #GrandChief #StewartPhillip - #president of the Union of #BritishColumbia #IndianChiefs .
“The formal #repudiation comes without #reparations or #TangibleActions to account for the #systemic #violence , #destruction of land and culture & #genocide which were #propagated by this deadly weapon of #colonization ,” said Phillip.
#Indigenous #ResidentialSchools #CatholicChurch #Canada #FirstNations #Indigenous #NativeCanada #IndianAct
I am not at all curious about the movie but this is hilarious:
"A body representing the real-life practitioners of exorcism have condemned the film as 'unreliable'."
Saint Pius X Church in Chula Vista painting - wall art print poster
#chulavista #catholicchurch #romancatholicchurch #churchtower #california #sandiegocounty #californiaart #painting #wallart #poster #artforsale #buyintoart #ayearforart #artprint #catholicart #church #artwork #art #painting #painterly
["On performing his work, Coffey wore the uniform of the Roman Catholic priest".
"Coffey was very much a representative, and conducted the work, of the diocese."]
More excellent news today, as the Victorian Court of Appeal upholds a previous ruling by the Victorian Supreme Court that the Roman Catholic Church is indeed responsible for the actions of its clergy, after the Church appealed the decision.
ABC News link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/catholic-church-found-liable-appeal-clergy-child-abuse/102181586
'Doctrine of Discovery' formally repudiated by Vatican | CTV News https://bit.ly/42MmMA9 #Vatican #Indigenous #CatholicChurch #Indigenous #DoctrimeOfDiscovery #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
In Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary ‘In Viaggio: The Travels Of Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church is on an apology tour.
#PopeFrancis #CatholicChurch #Immigration https://progressive.org/latest/on-the-road-with-the-peoples-pontiff-rampell-290323/
@kashhill ⬆️
The #CatholicChurch would’ve served its young members, instead of the political interests of its true masters, by paying for app data that tracked #pedophiles not gay men!
The #CatholicChurch shoulda spent that money ⬆️ on apps that tracked #pedophiles !
Northern Ontario diocese ignored decades of sexual misconduct allegations against priests, volunteers | CBC News https://bit.ly/3Jd3Lz3 #NorthernOntario #CatholicChurch #Abuse #SexualAbuse #onpoli @onpoli
Don’t take this wrong, but my question is - who wasn’t #colonized? The #1500s were a free-for-all. The English, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Russians & the #CatholicChurch tried to take over the planet. I hope I didn’t leave anybody out!
I love #Scotland by the way. I’m clan #Gordon on my mother’s side. Lang may yer lum reek.
The Portuguese Catholic Church is shaken by an investigation into child-victims of sexual abuse.
An independent panel concluded that at least 4,815 minors had been sexually abused since the 1950s.
In a country where 80% of the population identify as Catholic, and 30% claim to be practicing Catholics, the report, revealing abuses within the Portuguese Church and the institution's silence about it ever since, has come as a shock.
Portugal: Thousands of children abused by Catholic clergy
https://www.dw.com/en/portugal-thousands-of-children-abused-by-catholic-clergy/a-64685194
#Portugal #CatholicChurch #Clergy #ChildAbuse
[Oz] Sex abuse survivors tie ribbons at St Mary's Cathedral in silent protest ahead of George Pell's funeral
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sex-abuse-survivors-tie-ribbons-at-st-marys-cathedral-in-silent-protest-ahead-of-george-pells-funeral/csetb498v
#SexAbuse #CatholicChurch
If anyone had doubts that #Australia has been a Police State for a while...
#NSW Police are seeking a court order from the NSW supreme court to make it illegal for #LGBTQ+ protesters marching on the street outside of St Mary’s Cathedral in #Sydney on the day of George Pell's funeral.
This piece of shit of a person happened to be the highest authority of the #CatholicChurch in Australia as well as a convicted #pedophile, who not only raped kids, but also actively covered other cases within his own criminal organisation.
So there you have it, the NSW Police, which has also been involved in systematically strip searching kids, protecting pedophiles.
The #CatholicChurch continues showing a total lack of morality in how they treat the victims of sexual abuse they created.
Ribbons tied on the fence of St Mary’s Cathedral in support of victims of clergy abuse are being removed ahead of a planned requiem mass in #Sydney for Cardinal and #pedophile #Pell.
That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood
On Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K4JX0YU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
#priesthood #catholicchurch #gay #comingout #church #priest #authortube @bookstodon @gncif
In memoriam of Cardinal #Pell, convicted pedophile of the #CatholicChurch, this classic video by @chaser.
So the fucker is finally dead (and if we had trending topics, I would have been right for once). Not going to miss that smug face, am going to be very sick of all the fawning arseholes talking about how lovely and kind he was, how faithful, how knowledgeable, etc.
He led dioceses that moved pedophile priests around parishes. He lied about what he knew about institutional sex abuse to the Royal Commission. He fled to Rome to avoid most of the shame that hopefully followed him around until his timely death.
He is part of the reason the Catholic Church has no moral compass, is morally corrupt and rotten.
Fuck him, we're much better off without him, and I won't be taking questions at this time.
George Pell was a convicted child sex offender. He will always be remembered for his crimes, which overshadow his career as Archbishop of Melbourne, then Archbishop of Sydney, and then work in Rome as a Cardinal. Pell was a coward and a liar. For many years, he refused to return to Australia to face justice for his crimes.
I believe accounts of Pell's victims, and think they are far more numerous than the two who eventually made successful convictions. I think the Catholic church and our justice system failed all those victims. We should believe his victims who came forward, and have sympathy for his victims who couldn't speak-up or died before they could see justice.
Pell had the support of Australia's conservative mainstream media, many of who I think knowingly interfered in the legal process in an attempt to sway public opinion and try to change the course of justice. Pell also had the vocal support of our Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott. This says an awful lot about them as people, and about the moral authority of the LNP.
George Pell deserved to rot in jail for the rest of his life, rather than living in luxury in the Vatican until the age of 81. If the Catholic idea of hell exists, he will now be burning there for eternity.
#GeorgePell #CardinalPell #CatholicChurch #AusPol #JohnHoward #TonyAbbott
Italian Folk Magic
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS8hqVyRS/
#magic #italia #italy #napoli #naples #catholicchurch #luck
That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood
On Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K4JX0YU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
#priesthood #catholicchurch #gay #comingout #church #priest #authortube @bookstodon @gncif
Benedict XVI, first pope to resign in 600 years, dies at 95 | CP24 https://bit.ly/3vsvzrp #BenedictXVI #CatholicChurch #ThePope #cdnpoli @cdnpoli
Benedict XVI lucid, stable, but condition 'serious': Vatican | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/3VArJXM #BenedictoXVI #CatholicChurch #Health #PopeFrancis
That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood
On Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K4JX0YU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
#priesthood #catholicchurch #gay #comingout #church #priest #authortube @bookstodon @gncif
That Undeniable Longing: My Road to and from the Priesthood
On Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K4JX0YU/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
#priesthood #catholicchurch #gay #comingout #church #priest #authortube
The Reredos behind the altars at Holy Ghost Church in Knoxville, candlelit early Christmas morning following Midnight Mass. Christ the King is flanked by the 4 Evangelists. #catholic #catholicchurch
The Pope condemned the human 'hunger for wealth and power' at a Christmas Eve Mass - NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/12/25/1145466354/the-pope-has-condemned-the-human-hunger-for-wealth-and-power-at-a-christmas-eve- #ThePope #CatholicChurch #Wealth #Christmas #PopeFrancis
Devotion to unsanctioned Catholic folk saints is one of the fastest growing religious movements in Latin America and is surging in the U.S., experts say. Some Latinos who feel alienated by Christian traditions are turning to saints not sanctioned by the struggling Catholic Church for spiritual guidance around love, crime and money #saints #folksaints #narcosaints #lasantamuerte #JesusMalverde #catholicchurch
https://www.axios.com/2022/08/25/catholic-saints-narco-latin-america-us