#Catholic cover-up

[irishgop]

Long before Colin Kaepernick had the courage to kneel during the national anthem at NFL games, O’Connor tore up a picture of the pope for enabling child molestation, cover ups, and failing to compensate victims.

[underwaterspiderbird]

you know it, i know it, your pet rock knows it, your kyber crystal knows it, we all know it.

[honeyedheartss]

Lord, forgive me - being raised queer in the Church

[wifihunters]

some space nerd gays 😎🌈

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

Watching Protestants wring their hands over Catholic rituals and religious traditions is so funny to me because they'll see a bunch of people kissing a crucifix, taking communion at Mass or carrying a large statue of the Virgin Mary in a procession and act as if Armageddon is happening at that moment. There are actual things in the Catholic Church worth critiquing but Prots miss the mark every time.

[mydeaddad]

"asoiaf is based off the middle ages, they should be wearing this! [posts 16th century fashion]"

?

[side-b-support-squad]

I would love so much to read Eve Tushnet's books but I can't think of any way to get them without my parents finding out and that'd lead to a conversation I would rather die than have 😅

[respectthepetty]

Petty, forget Zomvivor. How the hell are we gonna get through Shadow? Holy shit. That trailer was intense.

@slayerkitty, I'm NOT gonna make it through Shadow. I will not be watching it on Gay Christmas because it would have to be late at night, and that is a hard NO for me, so I have to wait until the weekend and watch it during the day, with all the lights on, and warm tea to calm my nerves.

I don't think I'll be able to watch The Whisperer either when it comes out, but at least Shadow has my Catholic gays, so I'm willing to try for them.

Singto played a nice ghost in He's Coming to Me, so maybe his character here will get along well with the ghosts!

Because if there is anything I've learned from the horror films I've watched, the real horrors come from people who are alive and well

And the troubles that haunt us

Not the ghosts

And if there is anything I know about being Catholic, it is we cover a lot of pain up in attempt of keeping the faith.

No matter how harmful it is to ourselves and those around us.

I'm effing with los espookys because of the trauma, shame, and guilt, and that is peak Catholic behavior.

Now to find someone to hold my hand when this shit keeps me up at night reciting "Hail Mary"

[vileidol]

@withsappho unfortunately, the angel and the devil on your shoulders are both recommending murder

[bedlamsbard]

I spent too much time having to look up information on WWII dog tags and now I can INSTANTLY spot when someone (artists, pin makers, fic writers, people who make novelty dog tags) has used the wrong format for Steve’s WWII dog tags. :/ 

The U.S. Army changed their format for dog tags -- officially identification tags -- several times over the course of the war, including changing the order of the name, whether the home address was included, forms of service numbers...the screen-used dog tags from Camp Lehigh somewhat infamously have a nonexistent service number (probably because they didn’t want to accidentally use a real one), but Steve would have gotten a new service number when he was commissioned anyway (by 1943 officer service numbers didn’t begin with O-, but his would begin with 0).  Steve’s Camp Lehigh set might have still had his next-of-kin’s address on them (the screen-used ones do not), but he also does not have next-of-kin, so there’s that.  (Not his home address, his next-of-kin’s.)  His later ones would not have because they stopped putting the address on in July 1943.  Unless he got new ones issued in mid-1944, all of those would have his name as STEVEN G ROGERS, but if he had to get a new set issued after March 1944, they would have his name as ROGERS, STEVEN G.  They would have the date of his last tetanus vaccine (T42 or T41, whenever), plus the booster if applicable, his blood type, and his religion (P (Protestant), C (Catholic), H (Jewish, the H stands for Hebrew), NP (no preference), or blank).  They would not have his rank or his branch of service or the fact he’s a super soldier on there.

The current format for dog tags has changed since WWII, so if Steve had new tags issued in 2012, they would not be the same as his WWII tags.  (Presumably the ones he is wearing in the last scene of CATFA are a replica of his WWII tags, but if the Army issued him new tags after that, they would be different -- they would also actually not be the same as those used today, because the format has changed since then.  more options for religion now too.)

[fruitsaladgame]

it's the catholic schoolgirl au no one asked for

[goodwillfidgetspinner]

loose concept character design sketches are like cocaine to me. I can’t stop making them

[shedontlovehuhself]

One thing about Misha, he gon use his platform.

[salt-blog]

Frankie boy isn't wrong. There is, in fact, an air of fagginess in the Vatican, and it's going to stay that way forever.

If you don't want to stop being Catholic, but have stopped denying that you're a gay man, the priesthood is a very appealing option. It's a socially (and religiously) acceptable alternative to heterosexual marriage, after all.

Not only that, but you really only ever live with other men, plenty of whom are ostensibly in the same situation. Really, it's ideal for both the guy looking for hookups on the DL who still wants to save face in the community, as well as the guy who hates himself for being attracted to other men too much to do anything about it (but would rather die than be trapped in a heterosexual marriage).

Pretty much every Catholic understands this reality on some level, even if they don't like it.

Anyway. If Frankie boy actually wanted to do something about it, he'd let priests get married. That way, more straight men would be interested in the vocation. He's not changing anything though because who are we kidding, this is the Catholic fucking Church

He said it again.

[crosswire]

another night of not doing my annotated bibliography because i could be making a playlist of hymns instead

[butterflytblr]

Pedo-Priests Don’t Have Immunity

"The word 'abuse' gets thrown around. We're talking about rapes. They murdered something in me. Something died. Everything I believed, died."

"Shame. Guilt. I stopped going to church. I lost my faith."

For more info, watch the full conference "When Honesty is Lost: Signs of the Last Hour from the Hadith" at http://www.SupremeMasterTV.com/MAX

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