I mean, it's not surprising that a religious institution that is a literal patriarchy, and who protects sexual predators in its ranks, opposes reproductive rights and gender identity. Yesterday's news.
What pisses me off is that they think they're protecting "human dignity". Quite the contrary. They continue to dehumanise people.
Thankfully far from all Catholics are this narrow minded.
Jesus fucking Christ! Fuck the pope so very, very much!
Maybe he should ask Putin to have the courage of not invading other countries and killing people!? What the fuck is wrong with him addressing the attacked party!?
(My beloved country, the #Philippines, is the last country in the world, save for #VaticanCity, to forbid most citizens from getting #divorced.
As with Vatican City, the Philippine ban survives primarily due to the influence of the #CatholicChurch. Indeed, Muslim Filipinos can get legally divorced.)
Today, we had a largish raid group of 11+ to take on an #OriginFormePalkia in - it turned out to be a good raid.
Just for fun, my strongest ditto was backing up my mega salamence who was in #1 position. Turns out that the ditto's shapeshift did not cancel out my salamance's mega form which was a happy surprise 😁
Finally, that "white flag" comment was a disaster on the part of #PopeFrancis.
Cardinal #PietroParolin, the# Vatican's secretary of state, says the Vatican was pressing for a ceasefire and 'first of all it should be the aggressors who stop firing'. #Russia#CatholicChurch
#Marxism#Vatican#Pope#CatholicChurch: "The Vatican secretariat had proposed a 20-minute meeting, but, in the end, it lasted more than 40 minutes. The official Vatican press agency reported on the event, which, as expected, provoked angry reactions from ultraconservative religious sectors, particularly in the United States. This is undoubtedly a historic meeting, both from the point of view of Marxists and from that of the Vatican itself.
The old Italian communist song ‘Bandiera Rossa’ had a verse that went: ‘Avanti o popolo, al Vaticano, con bomba in mano, con bomba in mano’ (Forward, people, to the Vatican, bombs in hand). This time, communists and Marxists went to the Vatican with open hands, together with their Christian friends."
Kerala priest who joined BJP removed from all posts under Orthodox Church
The priest, along with 47 others from the Catholic Church, joined the BJP on December 30, 2023, during the Christmas Sneha Sangam organised by the NDA.
Pope deplores 'desperate humanitarian situation' in Gaza, calls for immediate ceasefire
Pope Francis on Monday deplored the desperate humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza and called for an immediate ceasefire and the freeing of hostages in his Christmas message.
The Belgian Catholic Church is accused of putting babies up for adoption without their mothers' consent.
Young pregnant women sent by their families to give birth in religious institutions have had their children taken away from them and given to adoptive parents in exchange for money. At least 30,000 newborns are thought to be affected.
The Catholic church moves one more baby-step toward same-sex marriage:
“Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God's love and mercy shouldn't be subject to "an exhaustive moral analysis" to receive it.
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
In 1838, a group of America’s most prominent Catholic priests sold 272 enslaved people to save their largest mission project, what is now Georgetown University.
In Belgium, a recent documentary on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has caused shock and soul-searching, reigniting a debate about the way religion is funded in the country.
Unlike in neighbouring France, the Belgian state finances officially recognised religions, with representatives of the Catholic Church receiving the best pay.
But the abuse scandal has seen many people demand a change in the rules.
Catholic Church representatives were before the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples Nov. 7 to provide information on the transfer of records pertaining to the children who attended residential schools.
Two weeks ago, Senators were shocked to hear of the barriers that were being put up from accessing those records, but the committee didn’t seem too eager to push the matter.
Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission report.
The report found that 0.6% of Spain's adult population of around 39 million people said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children.
The percentage rises to 1.13% — or over 400,000 people — when including abuse by lay members.
“Who specifically asks for a 21-year NDA? Who within their organization needs to die within that 21 years that is being protected?” — Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Musqua-Culbertson
“Disturbing”, “appalling”, “shocking,” “incomprehensible”. Yep, all those words were used by Canadian senators to describe stonewalling by the Catholic Church in the effort to collect residential school records from the entity.
Saskatchewan Treaty Commissioner Mary Musqua-Culbertson didn’t mince words when she testified before the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples.
Fears that #Israel or international partners could pressure #Egypt into accepting millions of #Palestinians settling in the #Sinai have abounded for decades in #Cairo: #HosniMubarak strenuously denied reports in 2017 that he had cut a deal with #MargaretThatcher in 1983 to resettle Palestinians exiled in Lebanon in the peninsula, adding that #BenjaminNetanyahu, had also proposed the idea in 2010.
“We ask Your Holiness to use your power, to use your strength, to get these hostages released,” the #WJC quoted Lauder as telling the 86-year-old pontiff, in a statement.
"In a new statement about #ClimateChange, #PopeFrancis criticized #FossilFuel companies and said the transition toward renewable energy is 'not progressing at the necessary speed.' And you know you're in trouble when the #CatholicChurch thinks you're stuck in the past." ~Seth Meyers, 5-Oct-2023
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
Filipino bishops rebuked #China in a rare statement about the #WestPhilippineSea dispute, and said it is “morally permissible” to take refuge in “the friendship of allies” if diplomacy fails.