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The chapel veil lends itself to a million unintended interpretations. Chief among them is that, by wearing the veil, I demonstrate that I am a particularly holy and devout person. This is far from the case.

@eclaire082

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

If obedience to death, the kind of obedience Christ modeled in his passion, doesn’t preclude questioning God, then it sure as heaven doesn’t preclude questioning the Church.

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

In the latter part of 1918, Padre Pio was bedridden between September and December due to the Spanish flu. Though he did not experience the worst effects of the illness, it caused him tremendous suffering as it affected many people close to him.

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

White supremacists commit most of the terrorist acts in the United States, but for some reason we’re very skittish about naming them. We shouldn’t be. This is not a problem that’s going to go away by calling it something else.

@mary_pezzulo

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Not all Christian men wanted to ignore the power and influence of women in the faith. Some, thankfully, stood with them and worked with them and promoted them and their memory.

@HenryKarlsonIII

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

I guarantee that if you got your wish and all the LGBTQ people in the Catholic Church disappeared overnight, leaving only the straight people, you would lose regular easy access to the sacraments.

@mary_pezzulo

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Your Excellency, just, what!? Have you read anything King wrote besides “Letter From Birmingham City Jail” and some quotes from “I Have a Dream”? The man was a socialist!

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Theater as we know it will return. Audiences will pack themselves into theaters. Actors will stand onstage. We will see sweat and spittle again. If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that there is no substitute for this experience.

@eclaire082

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Hitting theaters March 13-15 as a Fathom Event, the faith-based Church People has some very familiar faces but took me to a world that I, as a Catholic, don’t really understand.

@KateOHareWrites

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Social Justice aims to alleviate the suffering of the poor and marginalized , the oppressed and persecuted, the forsaken and the forgotten. One of our lenten goals is to give alms and help the less fortunate.

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

True freedom is had only when those who have been abused by society are lifted up with proper reparations for what they have suffered.

@HenryKarlsonIII

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

People tell me that they’re “speaking the truth in love” when they tell LGBTQ people that we are disgusting, sinful, dirty, untrustworthy, that we mustn’t be listened to on any topic, that we have to be kept away from children

@mary_pezzulo

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Abusers, especially when they are members of a privileged demographic, anticipate that the public will defend them, if a victim decides to speak out. And survivors know this too.

@Prof_RBW

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Supporters of a “traditional” female ideal often share vintage paintings and advertisements of smiling, aproned middle-class white women in sweet dresses.

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@PunkyMantilla

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"From this place, where faith was born, from the land of our father Abraham, let us affirm that God is merciful and that the greatest blasphemy is to profane his name by hating our brothers and sisters."

@FrMatthewLC

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

I remember with great clarity the debates leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US. Pope John Paul II voiced strong opposition to the invasion.

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Are you interested in defending institutions and beliefs? Or are you interested in defending persons, made in the image of God?

@Prof_RBW

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Morally, we should generally prefer the other two options available so far, but this one is not morally forbidden. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine can be used if it is the only option or only way to seek some other good.

@FrMatthewLC

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

They repeat the standard conservative scare tactics against LGBTQ people and especially my brothers and sisters who are transgender.

@mary_pezzulo

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[Patheos Catholic @PatheosCatholic]

Conservative Christians are fine with tacky golden idols now– or if they’re not, they haven’t exactly made their voices heard.

@mary_pezzulo

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