"new report from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research shows signs of a shift — for the first time in two decades, attendance is up. More people are volunteering, and there also seems to be a renewed sense of optimism among pastors and other clergy."
#catholic https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2026/05/worship-attendance-at-churches-up-for-the-first-time-in-decades-according-to-new-report/

Anyone have a good resource regarding #catholic teaching on sex after menopause? A quick net search game me. https://www.catholic.com/qa/menopause-is-no-reason-to-stop-marital-relations while it all sounds well and good the portion of the catechism he refernces didn't seen too actually so anything about what he's writing.

Happy #MayDay!

Today is the #Catholic Worker movement’s 93rd anniversary! On May 1st, 1933, Dorothy, her daughter Tamar, and several others sold the first issue of The Catholic Worker newspaper in Union Square for a penny a copy,

Have a blessed fest of St. Joseph the Worker

SINS of Christian Nationalism & Zionism

Sins of Christian War-Making

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-maDeoEDiI

Synopsis:

Holy war is a doctrine of the devil. Every church and organization promoting war for Christ is anti-christ.

Man cannot solve the evil in the world by 'fighting' or violence. That is exactly what the devil and his minions want. The gospel can not be spread by the sword or power of the state.

Every form of radical liberation theology or dominion theology is satanic because it denies the word of God and replaces it with the gospel of war.

Christian nationalists hate the lost because they too are lost souls with a messiah complex. Instead of following the messiah they want to reconstruct him in the imperial state. They do not have love of their neighbor.

My observation:

Christian Nationalism is disguised Roman imperialism, globalism and Zionism, hence it is neither Christian nor nationalist in character. Christian Nationalism has the same character imprint as Holy Roman Empire crusaderism. It is wicked and deceitful.

Christian Nationalists claim to advance 'dominion' or 'taking dominion'. This is blasphemy. The dominion over the nations was given to Jesus, not to imperfect men. Jesus is the one who is given dominion over all the nations. Thus Christian Nationalism blasphemously posits itself as the messiah with the dominion, just like its Catholic parent church.

#GunpointGospel #Crusades #HolyWar #Catholic #HolyWar #Christian #ChristianNationalism #Nationalism #Zionism #Christianity #DominionTheology #Church

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"He and other peace activists came to view the contents of draft boards’ filing cabinets as no different from bombs or bullets: They were just tools that helped the government kill."

Read an excerpt of the new Atavist story, by Stephen Wood: https://longreads.com/2026/04/02/catholic-buffalo-vietnam-war-draft/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Nonfiction #Journalism #Catholic #War #Antiwar #Draft #Vietnam #Government

While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion. This is the true goal of so-called 'Christian Nationalism': the forcible conversion of America to Roman imperial Christianity, a la Constantine and Justinian.

From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about their Roman moon goddess Mary, also known as Minerva, Venus, Easter, Astarte, Semiramis, and Isis.

Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

"In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/

#President #Religion #Church #ICE #Reformation #Catholic #RomanCatholic #Imperialism #Christian #Jesus #Nationalism #ChristianNationalism

A critique of The Future of Flourishing: Toward a Dialectical Spiritual Realist Social Ontology

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/14/solidarity-as-a-local-moral-grammar/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #ontology #essay #debate #language #morality #ethics #spiritual #chritian #perspective #ideology #authority #catholic #metaphysics #podcast #rhetoric #blog #psychology #cognition

Alt...

The Future of Flourishing TOWARD A DIALECTICAL SPIRITUAL REALIST SOCIAL ONTOLOGY A Speculative Reinterpretation of Christian Metaphysics as Inspiration for Participatory Flourishing OTTI VOGT

"The #Catholic #Church and the #Orthodox Church have been separated since 1054, and Koch – who heads the Vatican’s Dicastery for #Christian Unity – says the meeting is a step towards healing the division. " https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2025/11/cardinal-says-pope-leos-trip-to-turkiye-revives-the-spirit-of-ecumenism

#cancelCulture
“Nowadays we are flooded with ‘memories,’ often false, artificial, and even mendacious,” and “a tendency to dismiss the memory of the past or to invent one suited to the requirements of dominant ideologies.” #church #pope #catholic #history https://shop.catholic.com/blog/the-air-that-we-breathe-is-anticatholic/

Happy birthday to my partner @jgerhardtmusic and happy belated #MusicWomenWednesday to all! Go listen to my partner's music! If you like #indie #altpop with more than a dash of #catholic religious allusion from a #queer perspective, you'll like her stuff. :) For fans of Sufjan Stevens, Lucius, Fiona Apple.

https://jessicagerhardt.bandcamp.com/album/alight-beyond-the-sea

#music #QueerMusic

A delegation of clergy, including a #Catholic bishop who is one of Cupich's deputies, tried to bring the inmates at #Broadview holy Communion on Nov 1, the Catholic feast of #AllSaintsDay but was denied access to the facility.

#DHS propagandist McLaughlin said the #ICE facility in Broadview was a field office that is used for processing & short-term detention & it was not "standard operating procedure" to have religious services there.

#Trump #immigration #CivilRights #law #FreedomOfReligion

#PopeLeo was asked Tuesday about #immigrants at the #Broadview facility who have been refused the opportunity to receive holy Communion, an important #religious obligation. Many immigrants entering the #US come from #LatinAmerica, a predominantly #Catholic region.

He said the detainees' spiritual rights need to be respected & cited scripture indicating Jesus will judge #Christians after death on how they welcomed immigrants.

#Trump #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights #law #FreedomOfReligion

"Pope Leo's comments strengthen the resolve of those of us in the United States who remain deeply committed to welcoming the stranger," said Kerry Alys Robinson, president & CEO of Catholic Charities USA, a national federation of 168 #Catholic #charity agencies.

#PopeLeo, the first #US pope, has been ramping up his disapproval of the #Trump admin's treatment of #immigrants.

#immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CivilRights #HumanRights #law #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion

Pope Leo's recent criticisms of #Trump anti-#immigration policies are emboldening #Catholic efforts to help #immigrants caught up in the admin's hardline crackdown, snr US Church leaders say.

After Leo called on Tues for "deep reflection" in the #US about the admin's treatment of #immigrants, several top bishops as well as the country's main network of Catholic nuns & its national charity federation told Reuters they would step up their work.

[#PopeLeo is from #Chicago]
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/pope-leos-critique-trump-emboldens-top-us-catholics-help-immigrants-2025-11-07/

On this day in 1582, October 4th was followed immediately by October 15th, as most #Catholic countries adopted the new Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII to correct the drift of the old #Julian system. The reform restored the spring equinox to March 21 and kept Easter in its proper season—but at the cost of ten vanished days. The change wasn’t universal: Protestant and Orthodox countries resisted for centuries, with Britain and its colonies finally switching in 1752 and Russia only after the 1917 Revolution. #VS