Today, #PalmSunday, marks the start of #HolyWeek. I created a short explainer with #Lego. Share this with someone who might enjoy this! https://youtu.be/ROBqP-mQtxg?si=5TYsjmik0hYF4pw4 #Catholic

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/

OK, I saw this and thought it was @theonion. Nope, it is a real news story. Not #BarelySatire

> President Trump imposes tariffs on indulgences from the Holy See https://religionnews.com/2025/04/07/president-trump-imposes-tariffs-on-indulgences-from-the-holy-see/

Of course they are. Churches love to bitch and moan about others having "privilege" but these #deadbeats get tax exemption advantage.

> Supreme Court likely to embrace expanded tax exemption for religious charities https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/mcTlhFXeJKwGJcEAxnHReFRpWVnEcNkS

The hospital team treating Pope Francis considered stopping treatment, one of his doctors says. Read more from @CNN
https://flip.it/1ILPQd
#Francis #Pope #Medicine #Hospital #Catholic #Italy #Vatican

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.

[08:00] Bishops call for prayers for peace on feast of St Patrick

Irish Catholic bishops have encouraged people to use the feast of St Patrick to unite in prayer for peace.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0317/1502455-bishops-patricks-day/

#Catholic

 
#KrononautMoon (minus 2 nights) over #StMarks #Catholic #Chapel #Catonsville #MD #US.

2 nights to go before the #FullMoon & the #TotalLunarEclipse — the night when #TimeTravelers are invited to come visit or send us a #quantum #signal. #Photogs, please share lots of #MoonShots this week with @KronoMoon & @KronoMoonPhotos

#KronoMoon #MoonOverMastodon

Pope Francis suffered two episodes of “acute respiratory failure,” the Vatican says, as he continues to be hospitalized. Read more from @CBSNews
https://flip.it/Tz01.F
#Pope #Francis #Catholic #Health #Christianity

Ah yes, the #RWNJ retrogrades who want to go back to pre-Vatican II and think Papa Francisco is a libertine demon wanting to host open air orgies in St Peter's Basilica. With friends like that. . .

I am so glad to be a happy heathen.

> The Pope Is Critically Ill. Far-Right Catholic Trolls Are Out in Force. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/the-pope-is-critically-ill-far-right-catholic-trolls-are-out-in-force/

Today in Labor History February 26, 1616: The Roman Catholic Church formally banned Galileo Galilei from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun. In 1633, they tried and convicted him of heresy, and imprisoned him for the rest of his life. Bertolt Brecht wrote the play “Galileo” in 1938, which first played in Zurich, in 1943. Brecht fled Nazi Germany in 1933.

#galileo #BertoltBrecht #FreeSpeech #science #inquisition #censorship #drama #playwright #heresy #catholic #workingclass #nazi #LaborHistory @bookstadon

> Swiss Guard Prepares for Pope's Death
https://www.blick.ch/ausland/sorge-um-papst-wird-groesser-schweizergarde-bereitet-sich-auf-tod-vor-id20605949.html

I said it yesterday, place your bets folks. Odds may not be in Papa Francisco's favor.

#Catholic #bishops are suing the Trump administration for recently suspending funding for refugee resettlment under its ban on foreign aid.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is the largest private resettlment program in the US
and one of 10 national agencies that serve refugees.
The conference says the halt in foreign aid has resulted in the Trump administration witholding millions of dollars,
including for reimbursements of costs incurred before the ban went into effect.

The lawsuit notes that the resettlement program isn’t even foreign aid
– but rather domestic support for newly arrived refugees.
“The Catholic Church always works to uphold the common good of all
and promote the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable among us,”
said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the USCCB.

“The conference suddenly finds itself unable to sustain its work to care for the thousands of refugees who were welcomed into our country and assigned to the care of the USCCB by the government after being granted legal status.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-elon-musk-eric-adams-us-politics-live-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67b51afa8f08cae10d799583#block-67b51afa8f08cae10d799583

#Catholic bishops sue the #Trump admin over its abrupt halt to funding of refugee resettlement, calling the action unlawful & harmful to newly arrived #refugees & the nation’s largest private resettlement program.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops says the admin,by withholding millions even for reimbursements of costs incurred before the sudden cut-off of funding,violates various #laws & the constitutional provision giving power of the purse to #Congress, which already approved the #funding.

#SaveYouAClick: They are using it to desperately avoid compensating the victims of their perverted pedophiles.

> Why So Many Catholic Dioceses File for Bankruptcy https://sojo.net/articles/news/why-so-many-catholic-dioceses-file-bankruptcy