I often read texts that suggest that there is a concept of #Empire that everyone is relating to, but so far no one has bothered to explain to me what this is supposed to be. Apparently, it is more than just a dynastic or multi- or supranational state. Sometimes it is suggested that the concept is related to the Holy Roman Empire and its relation to the #Catholic Church. And that a genuine empire has a claim to the world.
@andreaslindholm@jdskog Yes, and I could possibly try to respond to those. And those may have nothing to do with these other specifically German debates.
@andreaslindholm@jdskog Maybe, but based on what I know about academics in the social sciences and humanities, they are probably all referring to slightly different local and particular things, and giving you the impression there's some big concept they all know, but actually they don't know either :)
This poll is for #Catholic identified people, regardless of level of participation. If you were baptized as a baby, but don't attend parish services, you still count for this poll. #religion#Christian#Christianity
@Igorjagec I've seen something similar in Ireland, where Protestant was specifically referring to Church of England (Ireland) and/or an England loyalist vs Catholic (Ireland loyalist) and everyone else was a "dissenter".
@vwbusguy Imagine Northern Ireland and the Balkans as intense sports team rivalries. If Northern Ireland was in the Balkans, it'd be Bosnia. Croatia and Serbia? They're like the big players, akin to the UK in Northern Ireland. It's less about religion, more about identity and long-standing issues that haven't been fully sorted out yet.
@mpjgregoire@PeterWyrm
I bought the entire package until I was 75. I didn’t leave the church; the church left me (and millions like me) when we all awoke to its reality.
Here's some good news. From CBCEW: Right Revd Richard Pain to be received in the Personal Ordinate of Our Lady of Walsingham The Right Revd Richard Pain, a former Bishop of Monmouth, will be received into the full communion of the Catholic Church within the Personal Ordinariate of Our L
The Polish bishops’ statement did not expressly criticize the Vatican declaration on blessing same-sex couples but appeared to conflict with the guidance contained within it.
As AP reports, law officials in Alabama are seeking the phone records of Alabama Catholic priest Alex Crow, who has fled to Europe with an 18-year-old girl he's accused of having groomed. Why the interest in Crow's phone records? As AP states,
"Alabama law prohibits sexual contact between a school employee and a student 19 or younger."
“As long as you are 19 or younger, it’s a crime if you are a student and the other party is some — I guess loose word — employee. That could include volunteer, coach, counselor, that kind of thing."
But I've had someone leap into my feed here and inform me that grooming minors is not illegal if immoral. Then, when I spoke back, he told me I'm a "social media rando," though HE invaded MY feed.
Father Alex Crow is accused of having groomed MULTIPLE underage girls. So why do some folks (hint: 99.99% men) want to defend him now?
Because they have long wanted to use the word "groom" solely to refer to adult men grooming underaged males — and they want the abuse crisis in the Catholic church to be about the bogus claim that it's all due to gay priests.
Data extracted via #OverpassTurbo and plotted using geojson.io to add some styling.
(The map is so bad that I got the “This page is slowing down Firefox. To speed up your browser, stop this page.” message. This is why you use marker clustering, or a GIS tool more suited to the job such as #QGIS or something like @felt.)
@jleedev I used the 3D globe mode of geojson.io for this map which uses Mapbox's map stack rather than Leaflet. But it's good to learn that the canvas renderer of Leaflet is a lot more performant! 👍 I might try the canvas mode in some of my other projects.
@hahamelius Indulgences made a big difference because the Medieval Church funded lots of healthcare and almsgiving. They did not however make any difference to the buyer post-mortem, as advertised...
“The issues around religious extremism and the religious roots of white supremacy did not start yesterday,” says Philip Arnold (pictured), faculty in the Department of Religion and conference organizer.
“They are part of the framework of colonialism that has its origins in the fifteenth century and we still see manifested today.”
“The contemporary white Christian nationalist movement flows directly from [the first European colonizers]”
There has been a lot of yarnspinning over the enmity between the Society of Jesus and Opus Dei. But the leaders of the Work thought and feared that the fairy tale would become reality right from the start, when in 2013 the Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio ascended to the chair of Peter. Their decision was to close themselves off in...
While in Ukraine a war is being fought that is also one of religion, between Christians, without any peace agreement in sight, an unexpected meeting of minds was reached on June 7 in Alexandria, Egypt, with the publication of a joint document between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches – but without the signature of...
@br00t4c
I'm baffled that it's a Catholic school in question. I guess US Xianity has devolved into a homogeneous mass of political gobbledygook. I was raised in the Jimmy Carter type of Southern Baptist (not the Oath Keepers, keep women barefoot and pregnant version that Carter abandoned), and we considered Catholics to be idolaters, what with their creepy Jesus statues hanging on the walls, votive candles to the saints and magic beads. I thought Kansas was a Protestant state. (I'm an atheist.)
"More than 300 people employed by Roman Catholic institutions in the south-eastern US city of New Orleans have been accused of sexually abusing children or other vulnerable people whom they met through their work over the last several decades, secret documents obtained by the Guardian reveal."
"Though New Orleans’s 230-year-old archdiocese has spent a significant portion of its recent history managing the fallout from its association with the worldwide Catholic church’s clerical molestation scandal, the organization has generally sought to keep hidden the exact number of priests, deacons, nuns, religious brothers and lay staffers – such as parochial school teachers – under its supervision who have been named in abuse claims."
"More than 300 priests in the New Orleans archdiocese are accused sexual abusers. Less than a quarter are on the official list."
Gosh, I wonder if stories like this might explain why so many Catholics are walking away? It's not only abuse of vulnerable people by religious authority figures. It's brazen lies of those at the top like Archbishop Aymond. Betrayal of pastoral concern, protecting abusers and cold-shouldering victims ….
It's something of a Christmas gift to read Michael Sean Winters' latest column in National Catholic Reporter in which he goes on a snide tear attacking the Colorado Supreme Court for holding Trump accountable to the US Constitution and proving that he fomented insurrection.
I say a Christmas gift: this is a valuable reminder that I'm missing nothing by ignoring almost anything the Catholic media, including in "liberal" iterations, publish.
It's too bad a majority of the Supreme Court share virtually every characteristic of a typical National Catholic Reporter subscriber, or columnist. At least I can celebrate my neighbors to the north, who have a Colorado Supreme Court who serve our Constitution, rather than using it as an excuse for white nationalist rulings. So I'm drinking a fine Colorado dark lager a bit later, from Fat Tire Brewery, in honor of four honorable and brave judges. #Catholic#Colorado
@Barrikoi1@wdlindsy
The National Catholic Reporter is a historical & constant voice of PROGRESSIVE Catholicism. Are you sure that’s what you meant? It frequently is called “the fish wrap” by conservative/traditionalist Catholics. I suspect those same four SCOTUS Justices wouldn’t be caught dead, or naked, reading NCR.
I feel like no one is addressing the elephant in the room with #Biden. We have the chance to re-elect a #Catholic for the first time. This is America's chance to address years of anti-catholic prejudice. Let's do this!
