So a fetus is a person when trying to deny women rights, but not when the hospital's wallet is on the line? It's obvious the true ideology here is about controlling women and nothing more.
Aiming to limit damages, Catholic hospital argues a fetus isn't the same as a 'person'
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/04/09/aiming-to-limit-damages-catholic-hospital-argues-a-fetus-isnt-the-same-as-a-person/
#abortion #womensrights #abortionishealthcare #catholic #prolife #prochoice #fetalpersonhood #hospital #liability #lawsuit
The #bible warns us about being manipulated by the #lawless people.
"There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other #Scriptures.
You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability." #christian #republican #Evangelical #southernbaptist #catholic #elonmusk #jesus #lent #easter
https://www.biblestudytools.com/esv/2-peter/passage/?q=2+peter+3:15-17
@wdlindsy Let's just call MAGA Catholics what they are: Heretics: Let's add MAGA to this List of Christian Heresies #Catholic #Heresy #Christian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_heresies
Unction
A #poem in two parts
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i.
A life of chronic sickness
both of body and of mind.
I am thirsting for some witness
to let my soul unwind.
All alone in a house
of prayerful solitude,
a baptistery to douse
my inner thirsty mood.
#poemaday #poetry #writing #silentsunday #catholic #longexposure #photography #poetsofmastodon #poets #mastoart
Man tackled by parishioners, handcuffed at Kansas church after Jesus-like prayer.
https://flip.it/ZmhPRH #Religion #Christianity #Catholic #OverlandPark #Kansas #HolySpiritCatholicChurch #Assault
Montreal archdiocese launches not-for-profit real estate arm aimed at maximizing social impact
As Montreal grapples with growing homelessness, the Catholic archdiocese in the city is forming a new real estate arm that it says will help ensure any redevelopment of church properties addresses "pressing community needs."
#realestate #homelessness #catholic #charity #Montreal #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-archdiocese-real-estate-arm-launch-1.7494680?cmp=rss
Catholic Charities laying off staff and halting services for refugees across the U.S. due to aid freeze and U.S. not paying on contracts signed.
I hope Pope Francis recovers quickly to speak up more on this. I also look forward to the new Archbishop for Washington, Cardinal McElroy, speaking up, as he did yesterday in his very first remarks in new role. https://bit.ly/423NdSo
https://www.ncronline.org/news/catholic-charities-agencies-halt-refugee-programs-wake-us-aid-freeze
#immigrants #catholic #refugees #uspol
Here's a new #introduction for my #newinstance
I'm Pat, a 60-something guy in the suburbs of #Chicago, #USA. I'm #Catholic, love #boxing (and box for exercise myself). I'm a #foodie and love to #cook, #bake, and make #bbq for my friends and family. I'm also a bit of a nerd, and you can find me here on #Mastodon, instead of all the corporately-entangled social media.
#recreationalboxing #fitnessboxing #homecook #homebaker #homebbq
Today, I'm writing about #Catholic Armenians (real and possibly also unfairly accused) who were sent to the #Ottoman Imperial Shipyard's #prison in 1706 and 1707. This was at a time when anti-Catholic #Armenian churchmen and the Ottoman central administration were cooperating to tamp down on Catholicism's spread among Ottoman subjects. They were motivated by several different factors. 1/?
@histodons @earlymodern
#Catholic Charities refugee resettlement program in mid-Missouri to close after 14 years https://missouriindependent.com/briefs/catholic-charities-refugee-resettlement-program-in-mid-missouri-to-close-after-14-years/?emci=3799ecb1-d305-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&emdi=1649df9c-4306-f011-90cd-0022482a9fb7&ceid=136240 #Missouri #Trump
Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude in Nivelles, Belgium
The patron saint of cats founded this stunning Romanesque church in the 7th century.#automata #medieval #crypts #cats #catholic #saints #romanesque #churches #section-Atlas
Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude
Not all gay people are as bad as child molesting #catholic clergy, you know :)
The freedom of being stupid exercised ... we should all get 5' of free being stupid in public time.
The Color of St. Patrick's Day Wasn't Always Green
Ireland’s patron saint was once dressed in blue—before his holiday got its signature hue.#colonialism #immigration #parades #festivals #history&culture #catholic #color #holidays #saints #irish #partnerstoryinternal #section-Articles
The Color of St. Patrick's Day Wasn't Always Green
I didn't know about #COINTELPRO until I was an adult. I did know the gummint was being super nasty to natives.
This is, indirectly, how I learned that the #church didn't really believe in #Jesus. I spent much of my childhood in #SouthDakota. You probably are aware of the scaremongering about #immigrants. How they break into houses and crime on the people who live there... The same kind of scaremongering was going on about "Indians." The particular town I lived in was not near any of the reservations, but people were talking scared.
I was attending the local #Catholic gradeschool, where most of my teachers were #nuns. The school principal was also a nun. My mother would sometimes take a few nuns out to the local pizzeria, and on one of these occasions, the topic of "Indians" came up, and the principal asked me, "<name>, what would you do if Indians came to your house while your mom was at work?" I answered that I would ask them if they were hungry, and cook them macaroni and cheese (the only thing I knew how to cook, other than heating up a can of soup).
And I *knew* that my answer was somehow wrong by the way the adults were acting. But I didn't know *why* and I absolutely did *not* want to ask in front of my two little sisters.
I did figure it out. If they were there to hurt me, or kidnap me, mac and cheese wouldn't stop them. And I thought the adults were being stupid about that. I mean, when *I* wanted to hurt someone, it was because of something they did. And I knew that I hadn't done anything to any Indian, ever.
I didn't even laugh when Sister T. bopped the Indian boy who read in class with the clown hammer. Normally, she'd grab the library book he was reading, slam it shut, and bop him on the head with the book, and then put it back on his desk. That day, she went into the cloak room and brought out the beepy clown hammer. She bopped him, and his desk. The other kids laughed. I wanted to cry. She made a point of bopping *my* desk, to show how it beeped and didn't actually hurt.
I was single-digit years old. But Catholic school means #Mass every school day, and *lots* of reading from the #Bible. First a reading from the Old Testament, then a bit of Psalm, then a non-gospel New Testament, and then the gospel.
If they broke into Jesus' house, he would bless them. Kids can't bless anybody unless they sneeze. And I had just learned how to make macaroni and cheese.
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