#women in the Catholic Church

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The Struggle for Women's Voices in the Catholic Church

When Pope Francis made the groundbreaking decision last year to allow women to vote for the first time at the upcoming global meeting of bishops, many within the Catholic community viewed it as a significant stride toward achieving greater equity within the Roman Catholic Church. However, even before the synod commenced this month, the Vatican made an unexpected announcement that left many…

[ominouspositivity-or-else]

writing a paper on second wave feminism and the catholic church and going into it i was not prepared for the level at which people think the church is oppressing and suppressing women.

like girl where

is it. is it one of the countless churches named after. the mother of God. or. or the hundreds of female saints. or. the art on the walls. or the nuns who are the life of a parish. or. what. are we looking at the same thing here. it's our seventh Marian feast day of the year. later we have a whole day in honor of Edith Stein. sometimes men take the names of women. by choice. in their teen years. is that. is that where women are getting oppressed by the church

[eternalholygirl]

✞ Journal Prompts

1. How can I honor/serve God today?

2. Write a prayer for someone

3. How can I be a better friend this week?

4. What can I trust God with today?

5. What is a promise of God that I will hold to my heart to get me through the day?

6. What kind of person is God leading me to be and how can I become that person?

7. Who is God to me?

8. What distractions are getting in the way of me walking with purpose?

9. Who are the people God is leading me to invest in?

10. What Habits in my life do not glorify God and how can I change them?

11. What prayers of mine has God answered recently?

12. Today I am grateful for…

13. What habits can I obtain to grow closer to God?

14. Bible verses that stand out to me and why

15. Characteristics of God that you look for

In relationships

16. Who am I holding a grudge against and why I should let it go

17. My favorite Bible characters and why

18. 20 Positive characteristics of mine

19. When do I feel most distant from God? How can I get away from those situations?

20. When do I feel closest to God?

21. If my life would be used to preach one message, what would it be?

22. What are my God given gifts and talents?

23. How does a fulfilling morning spent with God look like to me?

24. How does a fulfilling evening spent with god look like to me?

25. If Jesus stood in front of me today, what 5 Questions would I ask him?

26. Which character in the bible is my greatest motivation and why?

27. Which character in the Bible do I relate to the most and why?

28. How did I experience God’s presence today?

29. What is an Area of your life where you need to trust God more?

30. What blessings has God provided recently? How have they strengthened my faith?

31. How can I show Christ-like love to others in your daily interactions?

32. How can I surrender my worries to God and find peace in his promises?

33. What step of obedience had God called me to that I’m avoiding?

34. Is there a sin in my life that I am not confessing and not repenting from? What is it and why do I hold onto it? How can I stop?

35. Am I spending consistent time with God? Why or Why not? What has been occupying my time lately?

Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:39

[billionbrilliantstars]

When we put country before party, we vote for a future that benefits all of us. Let’s make the right choice this November.

If you’re a Christian, this is also about putting God before party and before a man. Trump is no Godly man. Liz Cheney is very much pro life, but the healthy way to reduce abortions is not to create dystopian laws. These are laws that force victims of rape and incest to carry a child. These laws also inhibit care for partial miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, and other medically necessary abortions.

Conservative Christians, we can elect Kamala Harris and advocate for taking rapists accountable, enhanced access to comprehensive sex education, access to birth control, and a better adoption system. Kamala Harris has already promised to enhance the child tax credit and reduce the cost of living so less mothers will feel they can’t care for a child. You can be deeply religious and pro life and still vote for Kamala and stop Trump.

[rabbitprayer]

No desire to convert to catholicism but the desire to kind of pretend that no schisms ever happened.

[akonoadham]

[littleflowerfaith]

By Eva McKee

[juliakristeva]

kind of crazy that i need to make this post, but this is just to say: if you are not pro-choice, please unfollow me and if we are mutuals just softblock me. i have no desire for confrontation nor any desire to change your beliefs because they are unique and sacred to you. but i have extremely strong feelings about the right to choice that are rooted in and pivotal to my beliefs as a christian, and i find the so-called pro-life movement to be antithetical to those beliefs and more generally to the christian faith. i do not have the patience for the attitude of self-victimization held by the pro-life movement in any context, and i pray earnestly for all of you to channel your passion for the unborn into actually caring for the living who deserve love and justice.

[historyguide]

Beautiful rural life paintings by Antoni Piotrowski.

[gratiae-mirabilia]

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Doctor of the Church

1098 - 1179

Feast Day: September 17

St. Hildegarde was an amazing 12th-century German mystic, composer, abbess, poet, philosopher, teacher, and writer.  She wrote extensively on theology, science, and medicine, and she left a legacy of letters, poems, songs, visions and musical compositions.  She claims one of the largest repertoires of medieval composers.  Pope Benedict XVI declared her a "Doctor of the Church" in 2012, which makes her the fourth woman of the 36 saints with this special distinction.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[littlebydigital]

🎤 

“God is something that needs rescuing from religion.”

To the absolute legend,

A woman whose brave prescience never wavered against abuse 

Hope you find all the peace that life stole from you.

Rest easy, Sinead O’Connor.

Shuhada Sadaqat, Inna Iillahi wa inna alayhi rajioon 🤲🏽

You will never ever be forgotten. 

[eternalholygirl]

Because of your faith, It will happen.

Matthew 9:29

[forward-in-joy]

'What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.' -- Romans 8:35-38

Happy Feast of St. Ursula and companions!

[feministdragon]

Something that never made sense to me as a child was why, when Eve was thrown out of the Garden, she now had to suffer ‘the pains of childbirth’,  like, why was that such a thing? Why did the story have to make such a big deal out of it?

17,000 years ago there was a sudden collapse of Y chromosome diversity, with no related collapse of X chromosome diversity.  The most obvious explanation was that groups of men were capturing other tribes, slaughtering the males, and incorporating the women into their own tribes.  

If you think of the Old Testament as a concentration of the stories of the herders who displaced the hunter-gatherers, then you understand that what they were accomplishing was the first wave of subjugating women: taking women away from their mothers, raping them and dislocating them from their original tribe (now dead or scattered), which meant separating women from their traditions of knowledge. This directly led to women having terrible childbirth experiences, as they coped with their isolation and separation from health and care traditions. 

[helloparkerrose]

Happy International Women's Day!