This is so devastating. Imagine being a black parent tonight. How do you protect your children? If they go out and stab just one person, they might go to prison. It’s like a black man in America can’t even murder anyone anymore. Unimaginable. Jim Crow all over again. I’m furious.
so let me get this straight:
-soccer counts as brazilian/argentine culture, basketball counts as serbian/lithuanian culture, hockey counts as canadian/swedish/finnish culture, rugby counts as NZ/UK culture, but baseball and american football and college sports/march madness cannot POSSIBLY count as american culture?
-afternoon tea is british culture, masala chai is indian culture, espresso is italian culture, turkish tea/coffee is turkish culture, but iced coffee (and sweet tea down south) doesn’t count as american culture?
-telenovelas are part of latino cultures, bollywood is part of indian culture, but hollywood cannot count as american culture?
-kpop is korean culture, jpop is japanese culture, but boy bands (which literally originated in the US) don’t count as american culture?
-wine is part of italian/french culture, beer is part of czech culture, vodka is part of russian/polish culture, but cocktails and soeakeasies aren’t american culture?
-kilts are scottish culture, saris are indian culture, but blue jeans and cowboy boots don’t count as being american culture?
-italy can be respected for having varying regional cuisines throughout the country EVEN IF 85% of it is just different variations of PASTA but the fact that louisiana cajun and creole food is entirely distinct from NE lobster rolls and tex-mex and jersey italian american cuisine and southern biscuits and gravy etc still doesn’t count as america having regional cuisine ?
-maori history counts for NZ, aboriginal history counts for australia, but native american history doesn’t count for the US?
-quinceañeras are latin american culture but sweet 16s aren’t american culture?
i could go on for ages but this is already too long for twitter. i’m tired of this conversation! EVERYWHERE HAS CULTURE! even if you don’t like it!
People with Down Syndrome have a right to life.
Many Christless societies have massacred almost all of them. Only the church speaks for them as precious humans deserving protection.
“To eliminate suffering entirely would mean, in the end, extinguishing love and desire as well. Those who love and desire cannot avoid passing through trial and suffering; and over the years, we carry within us lessons that leave their mark like scars, the memories of a journey shaped by freedom and failure, dreams and disappointments.
It is only thanks to the interplay of these elements that the wonders of the soul occur within us, allowing us to sense the richness of our humanity.
To renounce this adventure, both tragic and splendid, in the name of a presumed transcendence of all limits, could mean many things, but it would no longer be human.”
Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (par. 120) (May 15, 2026)
Wait until anti-Catholics find out the Israelites bowed before the Ark, processed with it, burned incense before it, sang before it, and treated it with terrifying reverence by God’s command…
…then realize Catholics call Mary the New Ark of the Covenant.
2 Samuel 6
Luke 1:43
Revelation 11:19–12:1
“Lord, during my time on earth i read Aquinas and Augustine and Liguori and-"
“did you feed the hungry? did you clothe the poor? did you visit the sick?”
“uhhhh…”
I think it’s because we all know that this is nothing more than going out in your underwear, you’re basically nude. Work wear is the last bastion of civilization when it comes to dress and people want to defend it