It's probably made of gold since it's worth is $30,000 source, and the size is to fit on a head size of human fist.

I saw this recently shared on insta and it's not available in English but only through Google translate.

A 24-year-old invalid wants to be a Catholic priest, but the Catholic Church refuses and refers to him as sick. He claims that he is not sick but that it's his condition.

Quote:Denis (24) is in a wheelchair and wants to be a priest. But they won't let him. 'That's why I took a letter to the Pope...'

He has had cerebral palsy since birth, is dependent on a wheelchair and other people's help, is blind in one eye and partially sighted in the other, and has been told three times within the Church, at different levels, that he cannot become a priest.



That's why I wrote a letter to the Pope, traveled to Rome where I participated in his audience, and handed the letter to him! I received the Holy See's response about twenty days later, and it did not say that I could not become a priest, which encouraged me to continue fighting for my life's calling.

So far, he and his parents have approached the Church on several levels, but the answer has always been the same: Denis cannot be a priest. Only healthy people can be ordained, they were told. And Denis answers them like this:

- I am not sick, this is my condition. I cannot hold the chalice and distribute the host, but someone can help me with that at mass. I am sorry that our Church does not look deeper into me, into my heart, instead of only seeing what is on the outside - says Denis.

source

So that means someone with high blood pressure or diabetes can't be a priest as they are not "healthy"

(January 14, 2025 at 1:34 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: It's probably made of gold since it's worth is $30,000 source, and the size is to fit on a head size of human fist.

Mind you, the Church is always saying that they don't actually own these baubles, that they're just 'holding them in trust for humanity'. If that's true, this isn't really a 'theft' at all.

Boru

(January 15, 2025 at 4:27 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: So that means someone with high blood pressure or diabetes can't be a priest as they are not "healthy"

Not to mention that Bergoglio is sick as fuck and he's the fucking Pope, while Wojtyla didn't even know what planet he was on.

Also, that article mentions that Denis already enrolled in some sort of Catholic high school for boys who want to be priests, but the school did not have a bathroom for invalids, thus he was forced to resign and go to different (secular) high school.

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Catholics are being persecuted because they are not allowed to break the law by protesting in front of abortion clinics or having ties to white nationalists.

Quote:Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi vows to end ‘weaponization’ against Catholics

During her Jan. 15 hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bondi — the former attorney general of Florida — referred to the Richmond FBI memo that targeted Catholics as the “ultimate weaponization” of government.

The January 2023 memo detailed an investigation into what it called “radical-traditionalist” Catholics and potential ties to “the far-right white nationalist movement.”

Hawley also referenced the prosecution of pro-life protesters under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, some of whom are facing multiple years in prison. Bondi promised to ensure the Department of Justice would not be used to target pro-life demonstrators or people of any religious faith.

Trump is set to be sworn into office on Monday, Jan. 20. He has criticized the FBI for its investigation of Catholics and has vowed to release the pro-life activists imprisoned under the FACE Act.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/...-catholics

People in Poland tried to ban kids from giving confession to the priests, to spare them the embarrassment, not to mention inappropriate intrusion of grown men listening to kids talking about masturbation, and to avoid giving kids complexions that they are sinners. The Church would have none of it, and are going into a persecution complex mode proclaiming it to be, what else, Stalinism.

This is from the Catholic Church affiliated site:

Quote:Polish petition to ban kids’ Confession “complete nonsense”



A new petition submitted to the Sejm – the lower house of the Polish Parliament – has proposed a ban on sacramental Confession for children below the age of 18. Such a bill would create a myriad of problems, not least of all that it would also push back First Communion to the age of 18, as First Communion is usually preceded by sacramental Confession.

The report notes that one of the objections listed in the petition is that it “prematurely confronts minors with the concept of good and evil.” The argument raises the question of when children are of an age in which they should be confronted with such concepts. Białecka points to studies that have found that children as young as pre-school age understand when they have done wrong. Furthermore, confronting their wrong-doing is pivotal to their moral development.

Poznań Metropolitan Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki called the proposal to ban childhood sacramental Confessions “complete nonsense.”

Archbishop Gądecki also took exception to the petition’s description of Confession, posing it as “an experience of humiliation and fear, a traumatic, nasty event that children did not want and were unable to defend themselves against."

This, he mused, reminded him of “what we faced under Stalinism.”

https://aleteia.org/2025/01/15/polish-pe...e-nonsense

Castrati: The Italian Boys Who Were Castrated In Order To Maintain Their High-Pitched Singing Voices

Though castration has a long history, the castrati first emerged around the 16th century. Then, The New York Times reports that the Vatican banned women from church choirs, creating a need for singers with high voices.

Before long, castrated singers, called castrati, became a popular substitution. The practice was even given implicit approval by the Vatican in 1589 when Pope Sixtus V decreed in a papal bull that castrati should replace boys and falsetto in the St. Peter’s choir.

By the dawn of the 18th century, some 4,000 Italian boys were being castrated per year in order to become singers. But since castration was technically illegal, their families had to take their sons to backstreet barbers or surgeons to have the procedure done. There, the boys were subjected to a painful operation without anesthesia, and an estimated 20 percent died.



But by the 19th century, castrati were no longer in high demand.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, writing in 1779, condemned the practice, calling parents who sent their sons to be castrated “inhuman fathers [who]…give up their children…for the amusement of voluptuous and cruel persons.”

The castrati started to become an embarrassment in Italy, and Pope Pius X forbid their use in the Sistine Chapel in 1903.

But the last of the Sistine Chapel castrati singers, Alessandro Moreschi, didn’t fully retire until 1913. Known as the “Angel of Rome,” Moreschi died in 1921 — but not before a recording was made of his voice singing Ave Maria.





https://allthatsinteresting.com/castrati

A story as old as Christianity: a priest needs a new BMW, but is stuck in a small parish with not enough people, so he is naturally shaming people to increase their donations.

From reddit:

Quote:A parish priest compiled and published a top list of believers by the amount of money they paid for house blessings. Locals are horrified: 'He even started reading it at mass'

The parish priest in Croatia has published a list of the amounts of gifts that believers gave for the blessing of their houses, which has seriously angered parishioners, RTL reported. He also published the names and surnames of the believers, as well as the exact addresses of the houses. The amount of gifts from believers from the settlement near Sisak ranged between 10 and 200 euros.

The public announcement of the sums of money has upset many in the parish, which has 2,500 believers, especially due to the fact that it is a poor area devastated after the earthquake.

Mr. Mijo told RTL that the shameful practice began with the arrival of a new priest who reads out loud the amounts of donations at mass. Those who gave the minimum amount due to difficult living conditions are the most shamed.

"That's not polite, that's not human. That's unacceptable to me. And a shame," Mijo Dolenec did not hide his anger in front of the cameras. "It's shameful to publicize how much someone gave and then have it posted. On a Facebook page? Well, that's not nice, it's not fair," Robert commented.

“Those who don’t have anything gave 10, 20 euros each and it turns out that the entire parish now knows who gave how much. These are mostly pensioners and these pensioners are barely making ends meet,” warns Mijo.

“Absolutely everyone will feel ashamed, I don’t think it’s very appropriate,” said Lidija. The RTL team met a lady in front of the church who couldn’t believe that the church had published a “charity register.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comment...blished_a/

Let's try to estimate how much the priest made from blessing the houses:

2500 people is let's say 625 houses (let's say 4 people per house), and let's say he got "measly" 30 Euro per house, that would still be 18 750 Euro with no taxes for a few days of work, and he's pissed.

Mana pots are expensive. You can't raid that hard as a mage without consumables.

Poland: They gave too little money for the funeral, the priest went crazy. "He threw an envelope at me"

The mourning family of Mrs. Władysława had to look for a priest several dozen kilometers away, because the priest from the parish in Węgliniec refused to celebrate the funeral for PLN 400 ($100). "He threw this envelope at me, told me to find" another idiot who would bury my grandmother "for so much money" – told the grandson of the woman in an interview with WP.

https://www.fakt.pl/wydarzenia/ksiadz-od...ie/qhyzkn1