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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 15h

Plus their ability to remember that people who don't agree with them exist (just in general, not even limited to Catholics) seems to have gotten exponentially worse very quickly

Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 15h

Bcs I def know conservatives who'd see "Catholics are anti-abortion" and assume a whole bunch of other positions that aren't there.

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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 15h

This may be a fair point, but part of what I was trying to express is, if Vance types have spent so much time in MAGA/traddie circles, are they surprised about the non-MAGA Catholics existing? Did they anticipate big public anger like this from Catholics?

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 20h

it reminds me that this is why we have liturgical ostentation and elaboration in the first place. It's precisely so that the beauty of holiness can resonate when brought into places of desperation, violence, and systemic sin.

If an ancient, richly adorned shrine only ever directs its energy inward,

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Grace Pritchard Burson @gaudynight78.bsky.social · 20h

Whenever I see an image like this - a monstrance being carried outside a detention facility, an Orthodox priest celebrating the Divine Liturgy in a bunker under Kyiv, a bunch of Episcopalians wearing OTT Anglo-Catholic bling in a Pride parade -

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

Because boy, howdy, nobody knows ritual and symbolism like the Catholic Church, and having it turned squarely back on the Very Bad Catholics who have been the public standard-bearers of wielding it for evil for so long is really good to see.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

It's been really, really nice seeing the Catholic social justice tradition in the US feel like it's empowered to spread its wings again without risking censure after a long time of being suppressed by US Catholic leadership, and it's exactly what I was hoping for from Pope Bob.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

Denying entrance to a Eucharistic Procession is to Catholicism kinda like what desecrating the flag is to the American civic religion, except with even more weight of history and tradition behind it!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

This is a really, really good act of protest that uses a protest language that has a chance of reaching people who would otherwise dismiss the issue. You can tell by how many former Catholics are seeing it here and having like entire full-body shudders despite having left the church decades ago.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18h

What Fr Dowling is doing here was not just "offering communion to detainees". A full on Eucharistic Procession is a really fucking big deal. In Catholic theological framing, those folks were the honor guard with the very great privilege of escorting Jesus himself to the detention center.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

legitimately i really do wish people would stop mistaking their own major depressive disorder for politics. it would be better for themselves and also the world

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

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politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 19h

I love these idiots getting to discover that the median US Catholic is neither JD Vance nor the traddie weirdos they handpick for SCOTUS

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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering, for no reason at all, how Madison Cawthorn said the DC GOP scene is one giant drug-fueled orgy right before they blacklisted and exiled him for all eternity

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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't look real close and thought this was a repurposed midcentury mainline church at first LOL

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all hallows eve-run enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 3d

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

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Flying Nun Pigeon 🇺🇦 @nunpigeon.bsky.social · 3d

Very interesting historian thread

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4d

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 5d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 6d

a banana is technically a nuclear weapon. you can hit someone with it, and yes, you will smear a small amount of potassium-40 on their body. but that does not comport with the traditional understanding of what a nuclear weapon is.

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 6d

A regular reminder that if youre worried about 2028 the best bulwark against Trump fuckery is Democrats winning as much as possible at the state and congressional levels next year.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 7d

A marvellous #Egyptian #frog amulet, made of porphyry (height 1.2 cm).
Because of their numerous offspring, #frogs were considered a symbol of fertility.

Dating ca. 1295–1185 BC, New Kingdom.

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A small frog-shaped amulet carved from dark reddish-brown porphyry, patterned with irregular white spots, shown in a crouching position against a plain light background.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 7d

They want a return to an imagined feudalism where they are lords over their little fiefdoms and no one can say no to them, and they need to be reminded that humanity collectively decided we weren't really going to do that shit anymore over a century ago.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 7d

It's a deeply ugly, horrific, unnerving thing to state plainly, but the ENTIRE central animus of the Trumpist movement is rape as ideology. The central belief that they can force themselves on others in any way or form they want, that it's a matter of hierarchical right, and you have to like them.

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