My mommy critter watching the teens wash our cars at the CCD fundraiser.

shortbreadsh:

melicinthenaked:

When people say that quote, “Well behaved women rarely make history.”

……well, this is awkward….

Well, this is awkward…. Plenty of those women saints became nuns by disobeying their parents and by flouting social mores, others caused a ruckus within their orders or within the Church at large. Some led armies and some told the popes what to do. If you read through their stories few of them are “well behaved.”

True story! Is ouchies!

stine-key:

getmetoanunnery:

lilacturtl:

Is this not depressing? Because it seems really depressing to me, but I could be biased by my own mental state. Of course I read about it on First Things and most of the people on there are hopelessly awful. Someone read this and tell me how depressing it actually is.

Nope, it’s actually depressing—and also scary. It seems to be an excuse and a reason to go “back to the good ol’ days before VatII ruined the Church.” 

1) If councils are fallible, why does this only apply to Vatican II? Using the same logic, you have to wonder if we have it more right NOW and back THEN was skewed and hateful. It just goes both ways.

2) While it’s great we’re reaching out to the fringe conservative groups, can we throw a bone to the liberals?  Or is that was the LCWR stuff is? 

3) Wanting to toss out Nostra Aetate and Dignitatas Humanae makes you kind of a terrible person.  In my humble opinion.  

I love the decorative artwork throughout my breviary. :-)

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his Name.

He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.

He has shown the strength of his arm, he has scattered the proud in their conceit.

He has cast down the mighty from their throwns, and has lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made to our fathers, to Abraham and his children for ever.

shortbreadsh:

lilacturtl:

invisibleforeigner:

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to dismissal from the priesthood when he was the archbishop of Milwaukee.

Why hello, straw that broke the camel’s back.

I just can’t. I want to go to bed and cry for a year. This is horrible. What is MORE horrible, is that nothing surprises me anymore.

tbh, I’m not mad about this. I’m imagining like if I had a sister with an abusive boyfriend. I know that the legal system will take a long time for anything to get resolved (if it ever does, there might be no evidence) and in the mean time I just want him away from my sister and I have some money laying around. So I say, “here’s 20k if you never come near my sister again.”

Honestly, it doesn’t even seem like that much money to get an abusive man out of the priesthood. I couldn’t care less if he buys a convertible with that money, I just want him out of a position of power that has access to children. 

What Natalie said.

Katelyn, after I commented on Lucifer’s theology being wrong. (via leanunachriost)

#CatholicProblems

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(via stine-key)

shortbreadsh:

simplyorthodox:

Living a chaste Christian life is sometimes more difficult than suffering a martyr’s death…

-St. Mark the Ascetic

pick yourselves up by your bootstraps, people!

That I  don’t find being chaste really all that difficult makes me worry that I’m doing something wrong and really I’m not chaste at all since it’s supposed to be this horrendous struggle. Like maybe I just don’t notice it’s an issue because I’m so busy trying not to be a horrible rage monkey/prideful ass that I forget the times I’ve ogled a dude or w/e :-P 

Blarg.

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