Hey everybody, just received a 20/20 on my press dossier on L’etat, le mariage pour tous, et l’Eglise Catholique, otherwise known as “thoughts of a bitter ex-catholic” 

this is my only grade in the entire class, and as celebration I bought myself a pain au chocolat and it was freshly made and it was warm

lenalot:

why not consecrate yourself to idk

JESUS?

faithinseeds:

So you know what scares me the most about becoming a nun? Not possibly being sent to another country to live in the daughter house. Not chastity or poverty, but the vow of obedience. That and having to learn New Testament Greek. I do not do well with languages, and somehow managed to pick…

It’s the vow of obedience that is the hardest, according to all the sisters I’ve talked to. It was the one that scared me the most. Complete obedience is something I ended up not being able to do. Then I got sick so no convent for me and left the RCC so fin bref but the sisters still tell me obedience, not poverty, not chastity, is the hardest. They still struggle with it—and most of them are 40+ years into their vows.

ravingoctopodes:

Here’s looking at you, Cardinal Dolan.

(Source : disneydeviants)

I was reading this article about some crazy disease that has cropped up in France (mers or mars or something, it’s the cousin of sars) and then another one about the flu in China and I was reminded of the H1N1 flu.

So I was in high school and the state was giving us free vaccinations and because my family believes in all the vaccinations I got one. However, I have issues with shots and I was the last one of my entire school to get one, so after an hour of watching everyone get jabbed, I was a fucking mess and then I got the shot and then my blood pressure dropped (like it always does) and I had a panic attack

and that is how I ended up sitting on the bleachers with a crazy gym teacher who held me for quite a while as I just sobbed and shook. 

I didn’t get the flu, though. 

ETA: the reason I was the last person to get the shot was because the principal called us by homeroom and she forgot that the Tri-M music honors society homeroom existed. We were in the basement and so were often forgotten about. 

shortbreadsh:

vomohiper:

Mr Venner, a presenter on a Catholic-traditionalust radio station and controversial historian and essayist, posted an essay on his website earlier in the day calling for “new, spectacular and symbolic actions to shake us out of our sleep, to jolt anaesthetised minds and to reawaken memory of our origins”. His long essay was a tirade against gay marriage but also a warning that the “population of France and Europe” was going to be “replaced” and brought under “Islamist control” and “sharia law”.

good riddance

how dare he do that in a church, in notre dame. ugh this is revolting, imagine how traumatized those people are?  

the church will probably look the other way on the suicide and canonize him as a martyr.

Ew. This is so revolting. I feel sick.

He’s very close to the anti-mariage pour tous folks in France and was part of some really crazy right wing groups here. His essays, if anyone wants to read them, are full of “n’importe quoi.” 

It’s absolutely insane and sick and disgusting 

(Source : diablodancer)

lord-kitschener:

“Father, forgive me, for I have been problematic.”

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With just the briefest acknowledgement of her life partner, Carla Hale lost the job she’€™d loved for more than 18 years.

And at a kitchen table here in central Ohio, a typically cheerful woman dabbed her eyes and wondered aloud what she’d done wrong.

The answer is in one sense simple: she made a life with another woman. While the Catholic Church doesn’t condemn homosexuality per se, it considers any physical expression of it sinful. And Carla’s “public declaration of an extramarital relationship,” meaning the obituary, indicated that she was flouting Catholic tenets and thus breaching her contract, according to a statement the diocese e-mailed me.

But things get complicated when you consider the selectiveness of the church’s outrage, the capriciousness of its mercy.

Until public exposure shamed them, many church leaders protected priests whose sexual transgressions involved minors and were criminal.

Church leaders tolerate teachers at Catholic schools who are married with no kids or with few. Some are surely using artificial birth control, which the church officially opposes.

“A lot of people want me to be bitter and go after the Catholic Church,” she said, adding that others want to cast her as a lesbian heroine. She just wants her job back, a recognition, she said, “that I’m a moral individual who happens to be gay.”

Just spent an hour and a half with this american girl who has a name (Sabrina) trying to help her get a taxi for tomorrow morning at 5am and jesus lord was it complicated because again she speaks no French etc.

We ended up using Clemence’s phone and the three of us were sitting in a circle on the floor and Sabrina asked how much we thought a taxi would cost and I had no idea and so I asked Clemence and she told me in French and I thought I totally translated but instead I just repeated it in French

This is what happens when you only write in English and speak in English only about 3-4  times a week and are constantly surrounded by French

not that I mind but good Lord

shortbreadsh:

Meanwhile, when the crowd gathered in thousands, so that they trampled on one another, he began to speak first to his disciples, ‘Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be uncovered, and nothing secret that will not become known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered behind closed doors will be proclaimed from the housetops.

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