#catholicism I guess

[toast-the-unknowing]

so my parents' church is uhhhhhh doing normal thanks for asking

[fish-tetris]

thinking about how law was (apparently??) being raised in the one piece catholic church™. thinking about how he specifically refers to the victories of the strawhats as miracles. thinking about how luffy has a god's devil fruit. thinking about law inclining his head and closing his eyes like he's praying towards the end of gear 5 luffy fighting kaido. is this anything.

[brainrotisseriechicken]

quick meri doodle for future reference

[were-you-whittingtons-friend]

Hey do you guys ever wonder if the reason that bread and wine were the two foods Christ chose to be his body and blood was that bread and wine were probably the first foods that people created themselves. That he chose humanity's first acts of creation even then. That even in his sacrifice he chose put his holy essence in the two foods that were arguably the most human. Do yall see my vision

[jammunin]

bible fandom are u there it’s me jammunin

[honourablepranksinatra]

As the years go by it is just funnier and funnier how Murdoch apparently Cannot Be Inspector due to Catholic discrimination.

Like yes we've had a woman inspector and yes now we have an Asian inspector (yay Paul Sun-Hyung Lee!) but this *checks notes* white straight man is catholic?? ...Sorry Toronto just isn't ready for that

[whyoneartheven]

Could everyone please pray for my family? We’ve come down with a nasty cold, and my mom has developed Bronchitis. My youngest brother also has a fever, as well as the second youngest. The latter is the same brother recently diagnosed with Graves’ Disease, and this fever might lead to complications. He might need to go to the emergency room tonight. Also, my dad is going through a very intense few weeks at work, and combined with the sickness at home he is very stressed out.

[ranminfan]

His name is Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone or St. Francis of Assisi.

I didn't knew he was named "Francis" by his father, who he did not have the best relationship with. Despite that, he rose above it and responded charitably.

[chicago-geniza]

The more Anne Rice tries not to be Catholic the more Catholic she becomes. She rejects Catholic orthodoxy but instead of becoming Un-Catholic she just gets into Catholic heresies. Like her consciousness is so steeped in Catholicism I don't know if she can conceive of a framework outside of it; even her atheism is "ordered" according to Catholic logics and constructed in opposition to Catholic dogmas. She's really fascinating to read from the POV of someone who only really encountered Catholicism as an adult

[ashton-slashton]

Okay what's really funny though about Hellraiser 3 is when Pinhead says to the Catholic Priest, "Thou shalt not bow down before any graven image," because that is SPECIFICALLY a Protestant thing, they deadass REWROTE the commandments because they hated Saints THAT FUCKING MUCH.

So either the writers were Protestant and didn't know shit from fuck about Catholicism, or Pinhead is Protestant (Church of England most likely, considering the time period Elliot Spencer was from).

The former is probably the correct answer, but it was really funny watching this and hearing my partner woefully wail, "Oh no, he's Protestant!"

[toast-the-unknowing]

you ever walk past a conversation that makes you hope to god you've stumbled across an improv anywhere skit or

extremely straight dude 1, sipping a beer: this tastes like sucking Jesus Christ's balls extremely straight dude (esd) 2: the only balls you should be sucking esd 3: that's the only way you're getting into heaven esd 4: you get the right ball, I get the left esd 5: wait are you drinking that? You said it tasted like balls esd 1: I said it tasted like JESUS's balls

[cicenice]

hill of crosses

[midnightfox450]

Can you even imagine the potential of a good-luck-babe-ified fiarina. Like an AU where 12 y/o Fia still stands up for Irina and helps her escape, but then submits to her father's initial punishment of repentance instead of choosing execution. Fia swears an oath to the Reaper and vows never to practice Trickster magic again.

When she's of age, her father has her married off to some random young man (the son of another clergyman, perhaps). Reverend Boginya retires and passes his position down to his son-and-law. *Not* his daughter, for she is just a woman, learned as she may be.

The old preacher's daughter becomes the new preacher's wife. Fia never leaves that desolate little town.

And she's miserable, of course. Miserable in her marriage, miserable in her duties as a woman of the church. But isn't that what she deserves? It's what the Reaper calls for her, for all of them.

But then it happens. They have a Judgement scheduled today, or at least, Fia's husband does. She doesn't do much besides stand next to him and read some hymns. She watches the beginnings of an execution carried out in perfect order before suddenly... Chaos. A woman appears wreathed in green light and fae magicks and vengeance. She burns the entire proceedings to the ground with every bystander caught in her wake.

Or, *nearly* every bystander.

The person on the scales escapes wordlessly, far too terrified of what just happened. Fia's husband, the preacher, is gone. But for some reason, she herself has been spared. She kneels in disbelief in a sea of ash and smoke.

Some part of her, deep down, recognizes that magic. It's sinful Trickster magic, of course, but there's something more, someone more. And that same part, that shameful, shameful part, feels relieved.

[margindoodles2407]

Guys it's finally happened. I've finally seen someone actually make a "Catholics Aren't Christian" take

[lotus-tower]

Sighing deeply. Why didn’t I like trigun