Damned Catholics

[arewethereyet]

So what was the point of copying my post?

Jilly is new here and if you look - the last couple paragraphs are Jilly's words.

Calm down FFS.

[Fake Messiah]

Catholic priests forced to apologise for wishing death on the Pope

A group of ultra-conservative priests from Spain and Latin America have been forced to apologise for saying they wished the Pope would die “as soon as possible”.

The comment was made during a filmed chat between members of a group called The Sacristy of the Vendée, which describes itself as “a counter-revolutionary priestly gathering”.

In it, Gabriel Calvo Zarraute, a priest from Toledo says: “I also pray a lot for the Pope, so that he can go to heaven as soon as possible.”

Another priest then also expresses his support for the Pope’s quick death, with other participants laughing at the comments.

The video was posted online and has had more than 60,000 views.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...h-on-pope/

[Jillybean]

It blows my mind that there are actually people who think the Catholic Church isn't conservative enough.  

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

It blows my mind that there are actually people who think the Catholic Church isn't conservative enough.  

Fanatics always think other people aren’t fanatical enough.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

The priest stole $270k from a parish named for the patron saint of accountants!

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/ny-prie...after-270k

[Fake Messiah]

Four years in prison for Michigan Catholic priest who looted $830,000 from elderly

https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/michiga...om-priests

[Fake Messiah]

Medieval Christian misogyny shapes how we judge women today, says scholar

“Many of the ideas that govern how we perceive women’s appearance today have their roots in the middle ages,” said Cambridge scholar Alexandra Zhirnova who is giving her talk on 23 March as part of the Cambridge Festival – a showcase of the research under way at the university.

Zhirnova’s PhD thesis shines a spotlight on the misogynistic attitudes of medieval Christian men towards women’s makeup, clothing and adornments.

“One of the fundamental teachings in Christianity is the need to turn away from materialistic values and focus on spiritual things. But when Christianity becomes integrated into the patriarchal society of late antiquity and the early middle ages, the idea is used as a means of social control over women.”

She thinks many early Christian male writers seemed to fear that women could excite a man’s lust using makeup and artfulness: “Women who have this power over men can control them and disrupt the male order of the world.”

Many “very influential” writers of the early church, such as Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, wrote letters and made speeches denouncing women who wore makeup and fine clothing as akin to “prostitutes”, while praising “respectable” women who did not. Yet if, as the Bible suggests, God sees beauty in one’s “inner self”, not “outward adornments”, then it should not matter what a Christian woman wears.

Zhirnova said: “These writers try to use this principle that ‘beauty should be within’ to say enhancements to a woman’s appearance should not be allowed. Women are perceived as ‘dangerous’ visually, to men.”

One of the first Christian authors to object was Tertullian, a Roman born around AD160. Other patristics – “fathers” of the early church – were persuaded by his theory that women who wore makeup were unnatural and even diabolical. Zhirnova added: “He’s thinking about it in terms of creation. So, God did not make eyeliner, therefore you should not use it. He has this hilarious argument, which is: if God wanted us to have purple wool, he would have given us purple sheep.”

https://www.theguardian.com/education/20...ys-scholar

[Fake Messiah]

So why doesn't he retire? When you can't even sit in a chair and let someone push you around while you murmur nonsense then it's time to retire. But no. He loves the attention of being the fucking Pontifex. Egoist and Pope are synonyms.

Pope Francis cancelled his attendance at the Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum at the last minute, in what the Vatican described as an attempt “to preserve his health” ahead of more Easter week engagements.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/m...ast-minute