#Roman Catholic priests

[minnesotafollower]

Cuban Catholic Priests: Island’s Greatest Evil Is Social Fracture Caused by Repression and Fear 

Christmas homilies by several Roman Catholic priests in Cuba criticized the defenselessness to which the regime has condemned Cubans. Father Rodríguez Alegre, a priest of the Archdiocese of Santiago de Cuba, said: ”‘I cry for Cuba because Cuba hurts me. The pain of my brothers hurts me.’ He stressed that Cuba’s greatest evil is not material deprivation, but the loss of truth and the social…

[scottinaussie]

*sigh*

[annaslapek]

St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican

[noomyguts]

half way through the vampire armand, and he loves love and god and family and the world, like can't emphasis enough how his love for others is repeated to be the direct connection to his humanity

hope nothing bad happens to rock the foundations of his very being

[historyguide]

Joža Uprka - Figure of Clergyman.

[austin-friars]

Short Story Snippet - Of Natural Sin

A conversation in 1542, between a soon to be married woman, and her friend and priest - who is gay and a bastard.

[reineyday]

okay, so i was thinking about a mishanks demon/priest au.

if mihawk is the priest and shanks is the demon, then my thoughts are that mihawk is the best exorcist in the world, and ends up on assignment to exorcise one of the four reigning demons out in the human realm, dubbed emperors by the supernatural community. except when he gets there, it becomes clear that at least this one demon emperor is more than he appears, and that the ethics surrounding this entire community--including the people mihawk works for--are questionable at best. they fight, mihawk acknowledges how thrilling it is to find an equal in one of the emperors of hell, and they uncover a sordid plot together. all very action-drama-mystery-intrigue-love story.

but if shanks is the priest and mihawk is the demon, then i think shanks would get sent to kuraigana to bless the grounds of the castle there (possibly as a punishment from garp who is annoyed with shanks at introducing some questionable moral concepts to his grandkid, or on a dare from benn and yasopp that he wouldnt be able to), and instead comes across the presiding demon who's been living there for the last three centuries, and perhaps even his two demonic charges (a ghost demon from thriller bark and the fabled demon of the east, on a mentorship for whatever reason). and it would just be a comedy of shanks trying to subtly get into the pants of--and even, god(lol) forbid, date--a demon under the guise of trying to exorcise him, and mihawk being very, very annoyed at the handsome priest trying to convert his castle home into some sort of church. (shanks is a priest because he's good at it, not because he believes in everything being preached haha.)

[falafels]

You popped up on my feed one day and never left and I am very pleased about that.

aw thank u! :D

[anastpaul]

(via Our Morning Offering – 4 November – O Holy Mother of God, A Prayer for our Priests – AnaStpaul)

[jasontoddiefor]

Being a Catholic theology student is fun because every so often you theology a little too hard and start looking like a heretic

[famuladomini]

Candlemas at Old St. Patrick Oratory, an apostolate of the ICKSP.

[scottinaussie]

Fr. Mike Schmitz

2014

[annaslapek]

Sanktuarium Krzyża Świętego

Via Crucis

[helloparkerrose]

[austin-friars]

You know, as someone who is fundamentally for calling out the Catholic Church, sexualizing nuns to me at least, was never an adequate way to do it. Not because I care about the heavy critiques the religion faces, but because instead of actually calling out white supremacy, misogyny, p*dophillia, etc., you go straight to sexualizing women in the church.

Nuns are no strangers to being the objects of sexualization, rape, etc. Nuns were commonly raped during raids in the middle ages, and at other historical points, and even now, nuns face sexual abuse in the church as well.

like religion, a lot of anti-religion ideologies tend to run on misogyny and when calling out an institution like the Catholic church, it isn't surprising that women are oftentimes the ones who take the brunt of that.

you could let's say, call out the fact that the catholic church kidnapped and forced thousands of native children to conform and lose their culture, or that slavery was signed off by catholic popes and rulers and the reason that I myself am even catholic is due to slavery. you can call out how the patriarchy is still alive and well in the church and how, queerphobia still exists.

but for some reason, you run to sexualize women who are already the victims of sexual desire. many of whom which, in the past and even now become nuns to avoid that.

we can't really have talks about dismantling religious institutions until you guys stop targeting women.

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

the beauty of Holy Mother Church is that she Christianizes culture, a true diversity