#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
We visited the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona AZ today. The gift shop may have been larger than the chapel.
This stood out.
TRUMP IS TELLING YOU TO SHUT UP AND STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT HIS ECONOMY! DIDN'T HE SAY HE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT YOU AND HE JUST WANTED YOUR VOTE? HE MEANT IT!
#Trump #Senators #children #reposteria #Medicaid #Catholic #Congress #repost #share #sharing #maga #recession #economy #economics
Kintsugi cross
A #poem for #silentsunday
in three parts
i.
Having walked through the dark
with my halo cut in half,
I silently embarked
on a search for a lighter path.
In a hidden corner of a church
in the quiet of Sunday,
I saw up on a perch
a painted crucifix on display.
Late 1970s for #ThrowbackThursday and this must have been my First Communion, raised Catholic like I was and attending a Catholic school like I did. Nice try, church, but you didn't sink your claws deep enough into me for it to stick.
These nuns advocated for immigrant rights for 40 years — now in their 90s, they’re not slowing down | AP News
> For over four decades Sisters JoAnn Persch, 90, and Pat Murphy, 95, have dedicated their lives to advocating for immigrant rights and the dignity of all people.
THE HATE WHICH TRUMP AND HIS MINIONS AIM AT IMMIGRANTS SEEKING SANCTUARY IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND THE REJECTION OF ALL CHRISTIAN VALUES. " PHARISEES AND HYPOCRITES!"
"When you did not welcome the stranger, you refuse to welcome me! Now depart into eternal damnation!" (Jesus: Matthew 25:35-46)
WE CANNOT FOOL JESUS ON THAT LAST DAY OF OUR LIVES!
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
#Catholic #statue #JesusChrist #Marilao #Philippines #bike #bicycle #MTB #cycling #McDonalds #bicycleRacks
Enough said. Hashtags and captions will have to do for now. So tired. Maybe I'll post about my ride later. Or maybe I'll be sleeping.
I'm not home yet. As I type this toot, I'm chilling at #Starbucks as a reward for my li'l adventure... and literally* having my reward -- a free venti coffee jelly frappuccino. 
#NoBikeRack
Had to stop 'n chill. Would be awful if I passed out on the road.
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
Great! More religious guilt! Now, if (when) he dies, it will be because the faithful didn't pray hard enough.
Ignoring God's ineffable plan for Francis, of course.
"A façade of pro-Christian culture is used to pass off, misrepresent or justify virtually everything from his supposed pro-life beliefs, to his contempt for science, to his attacks on political opponents as 'godless communists.'"
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty #Catholic
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As Catholic theologian Massimo Faggioli says, "Donald Trump captured American Catholicism — and the ramifications are being felt around the world." And:
"Trumpian populism is part of America’s exit from its self-conception as a Christian nation. It is a symptom of the advent of a post-Christian nation, though one that remains captive to a certain religious nationalism."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty #Catholic
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https://www.abc.net.au/religion/massimo-faggioli-trump-captured-american-catholicism/104955542
#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.
"All the Christian faithful and people of good will are called upon to consider the legitimacy of norms and public policies in the light of the dignity [and rights] of the person, not vice versa…
The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the 'Good Samaritan'… that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception."
Pope Francis's letter to the US: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2025/documents/20250210-lettera-vescovi-usa.html #catholic #uspol
THIS IS AN INTERESTING VIDEO WORTH SHARING.
A #Catholic Priest imprisoned by the #Nazis developed a theory about "#Stupidity", recognizing that it isn't just a lack of intelligence, but ALSO encompasses "willful ignorance".
Sound familiar? #Fascism #DisasterPresidency #NaziDon #PropagandaMinisterMusk #HoboGoering #Bannon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9h0Yy2QdmM
