Hey y’all don’t forget that you’re still a valid catholic if you don’t give up something totally crazy for lent. You could only eat bread and water for 40 days and emerge the same person. Rend ya hearts friends
A classic, worth reading on January 22nd, each year. Walker Percy's Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, published June 8, 1981: "A View of Abortion with Something to Offend Everybody"
Bracing for all the whitewashed MLK quotes that speak of love and harmony from those who’ve never once spoken of racial justice or inequalities. Honestly, especially for white Catholics, this is the quote that would do us the most good right now.
Why is the greatest act of rebellion always being an upper middle class WASP? What about being a Catholic factory worker with 5 kids, one good tie, and a family history of diabetes?
Because everyone deserves the opportunity to know Our God better in this lifetime, and we should be helping each other toward that, not hindering. I’m seeking small new ways I can be loving towards my neighbor, while acknowledging I’m not everywhere and everything to everyone.
Don’t talk to me about being prolife if you consciously/intentionally do any of the following:
• think the death penalty is necessary in the 21st century
• you don’t care about the environment
• get annoyed with parents of a child having a meltdown in public (cont.)
While I am not perfect and I do not expect anyone around me to be perfect, I think we all (myself included) need to recognize certain hypocrisies of the prolife agenda and find new ways to uphold dignity and respect for all—