The Catholicism Thread

If I found myself in a situation where I was aware that my failure to act had allowed or meant that other children were abused, well then, I think I would resign.

ur bad at resigning imo

maybe this is the better thread for this

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/us/nuns-speak-about-vatican-criticism.html?ref=us

"The Vatican ordered a “doctrinal assessment” of the women’s leadership conference in 2008 after years of concerns about its direction. The conference was formed in 1956 to provide communication and coordination among communities of sisters, and is a canonical organization, which means it answers to the Vatican. The assessment concluded that the leadership conference had hosted speakers who “often contradict or ignore” church teaching; had never revoked a statement from 1977 that questioned the male-only priesthood, and focused their efforts on serving the poor and disenfranchised, while remaining virtually silent on issues the church considers great societal evils: abortion and same-sex marriage."

yeah you don't say. as usual the nuns are fuckin awesome

― twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Saturday, June 2, 2012 1:54 AM (15 hours ago)

http://ncronline.org/news/women-religious/lcwr-president-speaks-pain-and-process

im. surfing channels and came up on the weird religion channels and we're one of them now (fair enough obv) and theyre having a mass for the CLOSING OF THE HOLY DOOR why has this mystical shit been kept hidden from us i would totally have stuck out my teens in a religion with cool fantasy titles like that

door opens to the vortex of limbo iirc

bit fucked that its only coming up as a priority now wha

a few christmases ago the priest gave a strangely retro sermon in which he talked about hell and stuff, and along the way he stressed the need for us to reject "the glamour of evil"

it was a phrase i'd never heard before and it made me want to be evil more than i imagined possible.

bishops vs DT

http://www.austindailyherald.com/2016/11/bishops-ask-trump-for-humane-immigration-policies/

I'm seriously not making this up, but at St Bernadette's Church (v small, old post-war cinema in middle of large council estate converted into a church) in Bradley, Hudds. We had a psycho/pedo priest. His sermon was once along the lines of "what I do in my time is none of your business - unless I'm committing mortal sins by the book - gtf out of my face". This guy sexually abused loads of kids in Plymouth and Bradford before he landed on this gig and got a long prison sentence in the 90's. He scared the shit out of me back then and knew it. I put my hand out for the holy communion host once, and he boomed "ARE YOU A CATHOLIC?" right in front of the whole congregation and even my older sis was so paralysed with fucking primal catholic fear she didn't dare say shit to stick up for me.

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Catholic+priest+is+jailed+for+sex+attacks+on+boys.-a061434015

This is the one, I might have got his CV a bit wrong from memory - but this is him.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44169484

all of chile's bishops offer the pope their resignations over their part in sexual abuse scandals

My favorite Catholicism thread on ILX.