#queer catholic

[determinedowl23]

i’m not even getting angry at conservative/queerphobic/misogynistic etc Christians anymore. how do you have so much hate in your heart that you can’t all your neighbors, but only the ones like you? Jesus showed the most compassion to the marginalized, so why shouldn’t we? truly i pray for you all.

[blood-is-the-life]

Tumblr user, look at me. Your problems with organized religion are not solved by harassing random religious people on the internet.

[angelspearlheart]

Latest obsession: pocket shrine/altars

[shoutsofmybones]

being a queer Christian and ALSO being really into historical Christianity can be really strange, but not for the reason you think. For me, the weirdest thing is that I know for a FACT that many of the saints of the early Church, particularly early monastics, did not waste their time obsessing over people's sexual sins. Like, not even close to the amount of writing conservatives do today. What they were concerned about, however, was when their fellow Christians were judgemental and thought they were superior to their siblings in Christ (the term Saint Benedict uses is "puffed up," which is pretty funny). So, by the standards of the early Church, Christians who spend their time judging and putting down other Christians, instead of working on themselves, are committing the really problematic behavior.

So, because I love historical Christianity, every time I see a conservative rail against the "inherent sin" and "intrinsic disorder" of gay people, all the while holding themselves as the true ideal of a Christian? All I can think is "the Desert Fathers would HATE this."

[ohholydyke]

I’m a lesbian and a Catholic which means the only man I’ll ever marry is Jesus Christ the Son of God Bridegroom to the Church and I eat his literal flesh and drink his actual blood every week through the transubstantiated Eucharist in remembrance of when he was here on earth and looking forward to when he will come back

“You just need the right man” I found him. It’s Jesus. We’re one flesh now. Yeah he died for my sins and in doing so united me to the creator God Almighty. He was dressed up for the occasion and everything. He kissed me on the forehead and led me to my girlfriend and said go love her as I loved you be happy. My husband is seated at the right hand of God from which he will come to judge the living and the dead if you care. Yeah I tried to pray the gay away but he cupped my face in his hands and said “there is nothing about you that needs to be fixed. You are holy as I am holy.” He had me nail my internalized homophobia to the cross and he carried it for me. The Holy Spirit gave me the rizz to flirt with my girlfriend when we met well enough that she fell in love with me and when we get married and she’s my wife I’m going to thank my husband Jesus Christ.

[dykecommunion]

sorry u don't see the inherent holiness of queer people and queer relationships. maybe u should praise God

[all1inchrist]

"The rainbow is God's symbol."

Damn right it is. Damn right it's God's symbol of mercy, love, acceptance, and all the things you seem to lack. I'm glad you can't look at a rainbow without thinking of all God's children whom you despise. I'm glad we've forced you to confront the truth of exactly who God is and exactly who is under the banner of His love. The rainbow is God's symbol and you have no right to stop me from clothing myself in it.

[thehermittheywarnedyouabout]

Y’all… as of 8:30 this morning I am CATHOLIC!!! I received confirmation and my first communion during the same mass and I am honestly lost for words, it was the most beautiful thing. I’m just bursting with gratitude and wanted to share :]

[goldenangelbaby]

There is something so beautiful about queer Catholics and even queer people in any religion who are so devout despite people telling us we are a sin and damned. And yet, we still worship. And yet. And yet. And yet.

[transtheology]

i've seen a few posts recently here & elsewhere where non-religious queer people talk about the pope's homophobia, talking about how it's funny and/or how no queer person cares about his opinion.

i wanna say, to queer catholics: i'm sorry. you are good and holy. you deserve better. you deserve a religious leader who sees how loved you are by God and makes sure you know it, too. and you deserve a community that sympathizes with you, even if they themselves don't share your faith. you don't deserve alienation and demonization. you deserve better. you are good and you are holy.

you do not need anyone's approval but God, who made you as you are, fully loveable. you do not need to reject your faith to defy homophobia. i love you.

[blood-is-the-life]

[catholicsapphic]

Queer Christian loneliness paired with regular gay loneliness and autistic loneliness is quite the treacherous combo. Which is why I’m honestly quite surprised God would give it to Me, the Whiniest Bitch Who Ever Lived

[thepsychopompsthrenody]

i'm really sorry but you're gonna find god in the Other Stuff, too. religious trappings are nice. so is tradition. it's good to have buildings to go to and things to wear and holy texts to read and prescripted songs to sing. it's comforting to have lineage and instructions. bless the treasure map.

but god's Elsewhere, too: out on the tips of skinny branches and wading in the weeds, left of center, left field.

so if you decide to test this theory and go rambling around calling out innumerable, unpronounceable names, know that you won't have to look too hard. divinity does a terrible job concealing itself. god willing you will take a shine to the idea that god happens everywhere, in everything, all the time.

[ohholydyke]

See the thing about fundamentalists and trads and Christian nationalists and MAGA evangelicals and ethnocratic bigots is that they render the faith so boring.

I take no issue with the fact that they would look at me and say that I’m not a member of the faithful because their faith is radically, inherently, ontologically distinct from mine. My God is too big and too loving and too esoteric to fit neatly into the gendered understanding of an authoritarian white father disciplining his children for not perfectly falling into lockstep. My Savior is the man who told the religious leaders “Caesar can have his idolatrous blood money, but give God your heart and your faith,” challenging the notion of an earthly ruler. My apostles wrote of the throne of man being empty—there are no masters or kings or governments, there is only Jesus Christ, Basileus Basileōn, king of kings. I believe in radical oneness with God through Christ—one flesh and one body, biblical marriage with the bridegroom whose flesh and blood make up the holy Eucharist. My faith is Queer, ancestral, esoteric, anarchist, insurrectionary, anticolonial, antiracist, unorthodox, disruptive, free. When I encounter the divine, or pray to the saints, or sit in the chapel to pray, I am experiencing communion with the sublime, in every sense of the word, the same presence that made the apostles fall to their faces before the transfiguration, that shaped the world from void, that animates the deep care and rage which boil into every aspect of my being.

When conservatives tell me I am not a Christian it is only because they cannot conceive of a Christ and a faith so big, so all encompassing, so beyond anything our human minds can comprehend, and they cannot conceive being in tune with this divinity and being left senseless by the knowledge that the divine above all else is us and loves us more than we could ever comprehend, such that experiencing this love is enough to leave one fundamentally, ontologically changed down to the fiber of their being. I feel sorrow for them. I pray that Christ may reach into their hearts and open their eyes, that they may see not only the horrors that they commit but also the deep love and freedom that awaits them through abandoning their fundamentalism and their bigotry.

Or, in other words, me every time I see another conservative Christian whining about how people aren’t doing Christianity right because they don’t adhere to a super narrow and watered down version of the faith:

[angelspearlheart]

[joanofarcs-stigmata]

not “bride of Christ” as in purity balls and promise rings but “bride of Christ” as in making out sloppy style with the Side Wound