Serviette posted:

The Vatican has a monopoly on a significant portion of the world's history. They should be compelled to release it all in its entirety. Faith notwithstanding.

Illegal Username posted:

The current pope seems like he's not thoroughly evil? Is it a trick or.is the church slipping

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Tiberius Thyben posted:

Imagine if Bernie Sanders got the Dem nomination. The Dems would still be a shitshow, and Bernie is only good in comparison with his peers.

Nathilus posted:

The cool thing about the current pope is that he's not from the cranky, corrupt, old italian fucks club that rules the vatican. That and he has more than lip service when it comes to helping the poor.

jBrereton posted:

I dunno looks to me like there are still a lot of gold plated churches and also poor people in the world.

jBrereton posted:

"Donators over $50 will get a guaranteed (signed by the pope!) lesser absolution from sins".

jBrereton posted:

"Donators over $50 will get a guaranteed (signed by the pope!) lesser absolution from sins".

Nathilus posted:

Pick a century and I'll give you horrors to melt your loving brain.

Pollyanna posted:

21st

whoflungpoop posted:

also the church inside is super decked out in shiny looking metal and gaudy expensive looking decorations

Swan Curry posted:

I went to a Catholic private school. They were pretty chill about the whole thing, we went to mass during the day a few times a year and we watched films in religion (funnily enough watching Cool Hand Luke was one of the first times I thought "Wow, those guys are hot"). A few priests lived in their own wing of the school but they minded their own business for the most part, the only day to day involvement they had was organising charity events. However, one teacher in particular, Ms. Wall was VERY Catholic. She was the only teacher left to start class with a prayer and insisted the class follow along. She was usually kept away from religion classes but sometimes she'd see a class without a teacher and take an opportunity to give us some good Catholic schooling.

This was around two years ago and abortion was once again a big issue in Ireland. One of the most important events in the history of abortion in Ireland was the X Case in 1992. A 14 year old girl known only as X was raped by her neighbour. When she threatened to commit suicide after becoming pregnant her family tried to bring her to England to get an abortion,but the state prevented them from leaving the country. The Supreme Court decided X had the right to an abortion due to the risk to her own life.

The facts of the case are pretty clear. It is a fact that X was raped by neighbour. In fact, that neighbour was later convicted of raping another teenage girl as well. It is a fact that X was willing to commit suicide if she was forced to carry the pregnancy to term. Ms. Wall didn't like those facts though. She told the class that she actually knew X. She claimed she had lived just around the corner from her. Ms. Wall knew the truth, that X was, in her own words, "A bit of a wild child". When her parents discovered X was pregnant, they decided they could use this situation as a way to bring "Abortion on demand" to Ireland. Ms. Wall insisted this was the truth.

What really scares me when I think about it is one of the other lads' reaction to it. He ate every word of it up, believed it all without question. This lad is from a pretty important family. Both his parents are fairly senior political and judicial figures and he's destined for either Parliament or the courts. He's possibly going to wield significant power in this country and he happily believes this poo poo and god knows what else.

gently caress you Ms. Wall, you wretched old oval office.

e:four paragraphs in gbs, kill me now

Grovelling poo poo, Sean MacBride, elected member of Irish Parliament posted:

I hasten, as my first act, to pay my humble respects to Your Grace, and to place myself at Your Grace’s disposal. Both as a Catholic and a public representative, I shall always welcome any advice which Your Grace may be good enough to give me and shall be at Your Grace’s disposal should there be any matters on which Your Grace feels I could be of any assistance. It is my sincere hope that Your Grace will not hesistate to avail of my services should the occasion arise.

Zippy the Bummer posted:

Pope Francis only has 1 and 1/3 set of lungs but still gives full length speeches and sermons because he is badass

FART BOSS posted:

We had this young hip priest in his 20s as an ethics teacher in catholic high school. We all thought he was super cool because he would play Metallica in class and jump on his desk when ppl didn't pay attention and get real with us about hypocrisy in the church. He seemed happy but out of nowhere he shot himself which as he had informed us in class was a straight ticket to hell. Some kids joked that he had sent himself to hell to hunt demons like in some edgy comic book.

Apparent poor guy had struggled with depression for a long time. That's my catholic school story.

Pollyanna posted:

21st

Monkey Fracas posted:

Grew up Catholic, went to mass every week, was altar boy for a while, did the whole confirmation thing, continued to go to mass for a while until I realized that I wasn't really getting anything out of it l

Monkey Fracas posted:

Grew up Catholic, went to mass every week, was altar boy for a while, did the whole confirmation thing, continued to go to mass for a while until I realized that I wasn't really getting anything out of it

Zippy the Bummer posted:

what other loving religions have entire temples decorated with thousands of bones from the sacred dead decorating that poo poo, with whole skeletons crowned and suited in gold armor