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A pack of diferent sketches

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Aldo’s POV

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you shall worship the lord your god and him only shall you serve

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giulio sabbadin being the campaign manager and not the candidate is endlessly fascinating. my favorite way to extrapolate on this is to make him the middle child. the second son. born to play support to the patriarch and the successor. he could have been taught how to be a political leader but it was not the priority, he was not the priority. lacks any real voice in the household as a result. but giulio has his own ambitions dammit. so he leaves. doesn't want into national politics because those are their playground. leaves to find something else, replaces his father with god. god, well, perhaps he listens, but the more important thing is that he has a voice here

but its hard for him to shed the skin of the second son. more used to supporting than being the main actor. though he hasnt found a use for his skills until he met aldo bellini and finally found a cause worth backing. he never was comfortable with his supporting role especially for his father and brother but gladly did it for aldo. he does the talks for aldo. makes sure his merits and accomplishments reach the right ears. aldo feels uncomfortable about this at first, saying that he doesn't do things for recognition but giulio assures him that others knowing about his merits would not take away from his integrity.

later on aldo gets called onto the vatican to serve as secretary of state and giulio tried not to miss him too much they can still meet sometime after all leans back onto his seat as the new archbishop of milan in satisfaction. he has done his part.

when opportunity for aldo opens up after the pope dies, giulio readily goes to support aldo once again, this time in his bid for the papacy

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judgment

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I love fics where Bellesco become a thing before Vincent and Thomas cos those two finding out about it would be like finding out the office problem and the head pf HR have been married the whole time

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Piece I did for a zine, based on Caravaggio's "Saint Francis in Prayer"

[ID: Digital painting of Janusz Woźniak, a repaint of Caravaggio's Saint Francis in Prayer. Instead of a skull, Janusz, in his black coat, holds onto a turtle shell, blood on his hands. Another turtle shell is crushed (though the violence is not visible) under a wooden crucifix by him /end ID]

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So what on earth is a Cardinal Major Penitentiary (Joshua Adeyemi's day job in "Conclave")?

AKA Jolie's Weekly Lecture on Catholic Church Organisation, Canon Law and Other Things You Never Thought You Would End Up Wanting To Read Meta About Until You Contracted The Old Men Yaoi Bug 😝 Part 3 (Part 1 is here | Part 2 is here)

So I have seen people wonder (or straight up misunderstand) what Cardinal Adeyemi's job in the Curia is.

His official title is "Cardinal Major Penitentiary" and he's also known as the Church's "Confessor-in-chief".

Does that mean that Adeyemi is the personal confessor of the Pope or the members of the Curia? Nope. Popes choose who they regularly confess to and they're free to choose any priest they feel comfortable with. They also don't have to stick to just one. Same goes for the senior Curia officials.

Adeyemi is more like a chief religious judge. His dicastery, the Apostolic Penitentiary - formerly (when RH wrote the book) the "Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Penitentiary" - is one of several tribunals or courts of the Holy See that form part of the Curia, i. e. the governing body of the Church.

It deals with "spiritual crimes", like forgiving sins that are too grave to be dealt with on a local level. Very great sins can lead to excommunication, which means barring the sinner from receiving the Eucharist and from other forms of spiritual comfort until they repent and are absolved. There's a long list of sins that would historically have got you excommunicated, and quite a few still will today. But some sins are considered so bad that only the Holy See can absolve you from them, rather than any local priest. They’re known as sins leading to excommunicatio latae sententiae or "automatic excommunication". They mostly include spiritual offences against the church itself or its representatives and doctrines. Those are the cases that are dealt with by the Apostolic Penitentiary. So if you seek forgiveness for these sins, you have to appeal to this court or tribunal headed by Adeyemi. You still don’t confess to Adeyemi personally, but you may have to go to a hearing to present your case.

The irony of Adeyemi's position is that it puts him on a super moral high horse. Excommunicable offences that you can only be absolved from by the Apostolic Penitentiary include apostasy, physically attacking the Pope or committing sacrilege by defiling the Eucharist, but also stuff like a priest absolving someone from breaking the Sixth Commandment (adultery/sexual misconduct) with them. I don't suppose it's a coincidence that RH gave the sexual abuser in the story this particular job.

The other two tribunals of the Holy See - just for the sake completeness - are the Roman Rota, which deals with standard canon law cases like the annulment of marriages, and the Apostolic Signatura, which is the administrative tribunal, where you can, for example, appeal a bishop's administrative decision. The Signatura also removes church officials from their office if they do wrong.

So if Tremblay won't resign of his own accord, the Signatura will remove him from his offices and seize his mismanaged money and stuff, while the Penitentiary will deal with the effect of his crimes on his soul, like what spiritual penance would be appropriate and if, after penance, his excommunication should be reversed. Unless Adeyemi immediately resigns after the Conclave as well because of his own troubles, he will literally be the person who decides on a fitting spiritual penance for Tremblay's crimes. I guess that's a fun scenario especially for the Trembleyemi gang. 😆

Got any questions or suggestions for another lecture? My ask box is always open. 😁

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It’s been forever since I drew this series 🤣😭😭😭

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Current writing advice I'm seeing on TikTok and Insta is telling authors to stop using em dashes in their work because, "AI uses em dashes so people will think you've used AI."

Y'know, the AI that was trained on the stolen work of real authors?

Anyway, I will not be doing that. What I will be doing, however, is adding a note at the start of all my books that no AI was used in the creation of my work because I, the author, did not go to university for four fucking years to study English literature and linguistics only to be told I can't use proper grammar because someone might think a robot wrote it.

Fucking, insane.

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The pope with the kind heart

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Fai un tiro, Patriarca.

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Welp I haven't gotten around to any more sketches (deadlines oh my god why are there never ending deadlines I just want to rest)

HOWEVER I'm tired of sitting on this other thing without sharing any more of it and I haven't been able to get back to it in weeks and it's at least tad salacious....so here's another WIP??

ENJOY

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The kind of friends who are part of each other's "alone."

so afflicted about lawrellini. like. their love is never celebrated. it can hardly be proven to exist. but they've followed each other from high noon to the sunset chapters of their lives. they can never abandon each other. they can never leave each other alone. there will always be a familiar touch, a knowing look. scarcely anybody else knows what aldo's laugh sounds like. never mind the way thomas's face gets red when they're having wine for the first time after lent. the pictures of them are few and far between; their wikipedia pages mention each other only as footnotes.

there is nothing that bears the weight of their devotion. they carry it with them wherever they go, walking shoulder to shoulder, but in parallel lines.