Ben Kearnes

Catholic, husband, goldsmith, space nerd.

[Ojike Uzoma @Xtopher_Uzo]

Homosexuality is not a sin in the Catholic Church.

Yes, you read that correctly. So relax and understand something.

Homosexuality refers to same-sex attraction. Simply experiencing an attraction is not, by itself, a sin. The Church teaches that the homosexual inclination is "objectively disordered," but the inclination itself is not a personal sin

If you call homosexuality itself a sin, then what are you going to call heterosexuality? A sin too? What about asexuality?

The Catholic Church does not teach that merely experiencing a sexual attraction is sinful.

The moral question is, what did you do with that attraction?

A heterosexual man can be attracted to women without sinning. But if he commits fornication or adultery, he has sinned (mortal sin).

Likewise, a homosexual woman does not sin merely by experiencing same-sex attractions. But if she commits sodomy, she has sinned (mortal sin).

So the distinction is simple:

Attraction ≠ act.

The Catholic Church does not condemn a person for experiencing an inclination. The Church teaches that sexual acts ONLY belong within marriage between a man and a woman.

This is why saying "homosexuality itself is a sin" is imprecise.

The sin is not the involuntary experience of an attraction. The sin arises when a person freely chooses an act which is contrary to the Church's teaching on human sexuality.

Finally, if you're committing adultery and fornication, you're going to the same hell with someone who is committing sodomy.

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

Carry your cross daily

[P. Jorge Enrique Mújica, LC @web_pastor]

"Cien años después de mi muerte la Biblia será un pedazo de Museo" (Voltaire) 😅

París 250 años después 🤣😂⤵️

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

An entire society once existed where people spent their lives building things they knew they would never personally enjoy.

Civilizations are built by people willing to plant trees whose shade they will never sit under.

[𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚎 ♱🇻🇦 @littleonefaith]

Catholicism 🍔

Come taste the fullness of the faith.

[𝔇𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔢𝔩 𝚟𝚜 𝔅𝔞𝔟𝔶𝔩𝔬𝔫 @DanielvsBabylon]

We're about to enter a phase in our world where darkness and sin will sweep this earth like never before.

God is allowing sin and demonic influence to increase because the time is near for Him to return and bring an end to Satan's reign of terror.

He's separating His sheep from Satan's goats. And all those who are still tinkering and tampering with sin will find it more difficult than ever to pull away. The sin you hold onto is the one that will destroy you.

So don't be destroyed by sin: cast it out!

[Trad West @trad_west_]

>Saint King Louis IX hears the Crown of Thorns is available in 1239
>Pays 135,000 livres for it
>Roughly half the kingdom’s annual income at the time
>Personally carries the relic into Paris barefoot as a penitent
>Then builds Sainte-Chapelle to house it
>800 years later Popes still venerate it in the Church he built for it.

The Catholic Church has unfathomable aura.

[Mrs. Gore @MrsGoresDiary]

It just hit me for the first time that, soooo many decades after Pharaoh killed the newborn babies of the Israelites, God took the firstborn of every Egyptian household. There was not one house without a death the night of the Passover.

You cannot read the Old Testament without learning a couple of things: 1. God tells very long stories, 2. God‘s people can go many, many years without a big moment of interaction or deliverance, 3. God never leaves a narrative unfinished or, to make up a word, unvengeanced.

I truly find the Old Testament as comforting as the New. Mostly because they are one, big, AMAZING story, and He is the same yesterday, today, tomorrow. So how He reveals Himself in the entire long Book is exactly who He is today.

The conclusion? Be on His team, walk in His ways, and pray without ceasing.

[Project Mystic @ProjectMysticDV]

Conquering the world.

[Lauren of Light ⚡️ @laurenoflight_]

When someone is chosen by God, you’ll know it by the way they go through hell, lose people, lose reputations, face isolation, storms and humiliation that would’ve taken others out…

Yet somehow they come back stronger, more resilient. Full of joy and laughter again.

That kind of strength isn’t natural.

It’s Divine. ✨

[THE CATHOLIC GENTLEMAN 🇻🇦🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 @Emma506131772]

By both, as you can see in the picture, lol 😂😂😂

[Kate 🐘🇺🇸👠 @KateKcollins1]

You can walk into a Catholic church almost anywhere on earth and know exactly where you are.

You could be in Rome, Poland, Kenya, Mexico, the Philippines, or sitting in a nearly empty parish in Chester County on a Tuesday morning. You may not understand a word being spoken, but you will still recognize the Mass. You will know when to stand, when to kneel, what is happening at the altar, and why everyone came.

That alone is incredible. But then you remember what it took for the Mass to survive.

It was offered in catacombs when Christians had to hide. It was offered in prison camps, during wars, in Irish homes when the faith was persecuted, and in underground churches where being caught could cost people everything. Priests risked their lives to celebrate it. Catholics risked theirs just to be there.

Kings died. Empires collapsed. Borders changed. Whole countries disappeared.

The Mass continued.

And now I get to walk into my church on an ordinary weekday morning and step into the same worship Catholics have carried across centuries.

That is what gets me.

Catholicism is not tied to one country, one culture, one preacher, or one generation. The Church is bigger than all of that.

You can cross an ocean, walk through the doors of a Catholic church, and still know exactly where you are.

Home.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Faithmaxxing

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

>Be a priest
>Get seated next to an end times crazy who hates Catholicism
>Have him start nagging you about the identity of the antiChrist.
>Say "I don't know."
>Go to sleep.

[Kate 🐘🇺🇸👠 @KateKcollins1]

I have never had more people who are not Catholic tell me what it means to be Catholic than since I started openly talking about my faith.

It is honestly wild.

People who do not go to Mass telling me what the Mass means.

People who reject the Church telling me what the Church teaches.

People who have not opened the Catechism telling me I am practicing Catholicism wrong.

People who mock the Pope telling me what Catholics are supposed to believe about the Pope.

People who do not believe in confession, the Eucharist, apostolic succession, sacred tradition, or the authority of the Church suddenly becoming experts on Catholicism the second a practicing Catholic speaks.

No.

You are allowed to disagree with me.

You are allowed to dislike the Catholic Church.

You are allowed to think I am wrong.

But you do not get to redefine my faith for me because the real version makes you uncomfortable.

Catholicism is not whatever opinion happens to fit your politics, your worldview, or your personal grievances with the Church.

It is a faith with doctrine.

With authority.

With sacraments.

With 2,000 years of history.

With saints who died rather than deny it.

And no, being Catholic does not mean I think every priest is perfect, every bishop is wise, every Pope is beyond criticism, or every decision made inside the Vatican is good.

Catholics know better than anyone that the Church is made of sinners.

That does not make the faith false.

It makes the need for Christ painfully obvious.

So if you are not Catholic and want to ask me questions, ask.

If you genuinely want to understand, I will talk to you all day.

But if you are going to lecture me about my own faith while rejecting the very Church you are explaining to me, save it.

I am not Catholic because it is fashionable.

I am not Catholic because it is easy.

I am Catholic because I believe it is true.

And the more seriously I take that, the less interested I become in letting people who do not practice it tell me how I should.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Calling Our Lady of Fatima apparitions a 'demon' is what is truly demonic here.

First of all, to this day, no scientific explanation has ever sufficed.

Solar activity? Impossible. No one else on earth reported it.
Mass hallucination? Seen miles away.
Atmospheric phenomena? Leaves no one dry.

This was a divine act witnessed by the modern world.

Atheists, scientists, journalists, police and secular authorities all saw it.

[Rae ❤️‍🔥 @FiatLuxGenesis]

The Catholic Church was absolutely correct on marriage, divorce, contraception, and abortion.

Popes of the past warned what would happen if the family was not the center of society and you're living in that smoking heap of a civilization right now.

[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

Fr. Ripperger: “Most people are so worldly that they have zero inclination to be with God. If you ask ‘Do you love God?’ they might say yes. But if you ask ‘How do you KNOW you love God?’ Well, Christ himself TOLD us what the criterion is: ‘If you love Me, keep My Commandments.’”