#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

[jammunin]

bible fandom are u there it’s me jammunin

[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.

[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

[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.

[cicenice]

hill of crosses

[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!"

[jh-newman-opn]

take this, all of you, and drink of it

[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

[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.

[thesongthesoulsings]

He is right! LGBTQ+ should not be celebrated but seen as what it is - a cry for help.

If it hadn´t been for perverted deviants like Kinsey, who claimed it was just fine and normal to be homosexual, based on data he got from pedophiles and criminals, we wouldn´t be living in this insanity right now.

Don´t attack those who struggle with same-sex attraction. Don´t even attack those who are misguided into being "proud" of it, but don´t be scared to speak out either.

If someone responds with "this is due to marginalization" - no, it´s not. Even prisoners and Jews under the Nazi regime did not have such high suicide rates.

[delicatefury]

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes fanfic writers try to actually write Catholic characters as Catholic. However, it’s obvious that some writers are not Catholic and they get some details wrong. So here’s some stuff every Catholic knows even if they don’t know they know:

1. Traditionally, in America, Catholics receive First Communion in second grade. That means 8 year olds will go to the altar and participate in the Eucharist each mass.

2. No one receives First Communion without having already had their First Reconciliation. If you see an 8 year old receiving the Eucharist, that 8 year old has already gone to confession at least once.

3. One of the first things we learn is the Seven Sacraments. And the first four are always learned in the same order because they are first received in that order: Baptism, Reconciliation, Communion, Confirmation. Of the last three, two are (usually) mutually exclusive life paths (Marriage and Holy Orders) and the last is usually for when you are suffering/dying (Anointing of the Sick).

4. This means that it’s pretty much impossible for a cradle Catholic, raised in the church, who is debating whether or not to take communion, to have never gone to confession/have been too young for reconciliation before they left the church. Even converts go to confession before ever receiving Communion.

[goldengodcannibal]

Confession is a funny thing