Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) was a German Benedictine abbess, also known as a writer, composer, philosopher, physician, and mystic. She founded scientific natural history in Germany. Hildegard is venerated as a patron saint of writers and musicians. #TempleThursday
If someone consider himself as a Catholic, but doesn't strive to live like a Franciscan and doesn't welcome and care for everyone without any exceptions, then he doesn't get what it is to be a Catholic.
If he hates people from sexual and gender minorities, foreigners, and any oppressed person, he doesn't get what it is to be a Catholic.
If he doesn't believe in the strict equality between all living things, then he doesn't get what it is to be a Catholic.
If he believes in any other dogma than love, care and selfishness, then he doesn't get what it is to be a Catholic.
All those reactionary conservatives are not Catholics. It's like Stalin saying he is a communist.
One of my friends is a Monsignor in the Catholic Church. He recently sent me this. (And yes, the meme should say "St. Augustine" who was indeed African.)
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
In Italy, the cradle of Catholicism, new research suggests that only 19% of citizens attend services at least weekly, while 31% never attend at all - and it's a trend already growing in some European nations.
Meet the 'nones': An ever increasing group across Europe with little to no religious affiliation.
i renounced catholicism more than 25 years ago and have raised two happy healthy atheists... and Papa Kiko is one of the most exciting things to have happened to #Catholicism since... well... the alleged natural death of Pope John Paul I after the untimely passing of Pope Paul VI.
So yeah, I do think people that believe this (or perhaps more importantly, are unwilling to tell their friends and family that they think it's all just made up like Greek mythology etc) have demonstrated a susceptibility to believe other kinds of propaganda (or just go along with it) too.
As expected, end of 1942, the #pope & the #Vatican knew about the #holocaust , in very precise details .(where and how)
The similarities with Ukraine and #PopeFrancis aka Jorge Mario Bergoglio attitude and support for orc terrorist are simply staggering.
A letter from the priest, the Rev Lothar Koenig, to Pius’s secretary, a fellow German Jesuit named the Rev Robert Leiber, is dated 14 December 1942. Written in German, the letter addresses Leiber as “Dear friend”, and goes on to report that the Nazis were killing up to 6,000 Jews and Poles daily from Rava Ruska, a town in prewar Poland that is today located in Ukraine and transporting them to the Belzec death camp.
Catholic church complicit in the murder of many thousands. And in recent times the rape of thousands of our children.
It is simply a criminal organization, that I was born and raised in.
@skykiss Pope Pius XII was a despicable #Nazi enabler who made it easy for #Catholics to accept #Hitler and his justification of the Final Solution. Learning of this history and of that piece of shit masquerading as clergy was the final straw for me with #Catholicism.
Religion poisons everything. #GodDoesNotExist #FuckReligion
More than 700 professors, authors and researchers from academic centers in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe and Africa on Monday condemned the closure and confiscation of the Jesuit Central American University of Nicaragua (UCA) by Daniel Ortega’s government last month....
I'm trying to follow all the updates about the Pope's visit to Mongolia. (A country with less than 2,000 Catholics).
This photo really captured me and I'm not sure why.
Dom Hélder Câmara died on 27 August 1999. He was was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop and a self-identified socialist. Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for the poor and for human rights and democracy during the military regime. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people. 1/2
Hi, everyone. I really need to vent. I don't expect anybody to actually read this whole thing, but if you do I'd love it if you could share your thoughts with me....
Long Beach-based priest charged with possessing more than 600 images of child pornography (abc7.com)
A Long Beach-based priest was charged in Ventura County with possession of child pornography, prosecutors said.
Nicaragua: More than 700 academics condemn the closure of the Jesuit University (nationworldnews.com)
More than 700 professors, authors and researchers from academic centers in Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe and Africa on Monday condemned the closure and confiscation of the Jesuit Central American University of Nicaragua (UCA) by Daniel Ortega’s government last month....
[RANT] Why I left my grandfather’s Requiem Mass early (kbin.social)
Crossposted from Atheism@kbin.social, a larger but less active community than this one.
OC [RANT] Why I left my grandfather’s Requiem Mass early
Hi, everyone. I really need to vent. I don't expect anybody to actually read this whole thing, but if you do I'd love it if you could share your thoughts with me....