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everyone talks about how tumblr should make an @everyone feature, but I have another proposal: an @anyone feature. this tags a few users at random and there’s no way of predicting who it will be. this will also solve nothing and make everything worse

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Shout out to Spanish for having the correct word for kitties. This is literally el gato there's no other word for it

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when you solve that one sudoku cell that busts the whole puzzle wide open

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From an article that interviews LGBTQ Catholics in Pittsburgh, along with ministers who are working to support them — varying perspectives from LGBTQ Catholics about making space for themselves within the Church:

‘Richard has been active as a lector and Eucharistic minister in his parish for many years. When he first came out as gay in his 50s, he “didn’t say too much about that” at church. Now he’s becoming more open. To Richard, now in his 70s, the LGBTQ ministry group at his parish feels like a step in the right direction. He hopes that, if they start by creating a “welcoming place,” it can then lead to better dialogue outside the group. He said most people at his parish make him feel “pretty welcome.” As to the rest, he’s made his peace with it. “I don’t see anybody as perfect,” he said. “I believe the church is divine, and it’s human. And this is the human aspect of it.” Other LGBTQ Catholics approach the LGBTQ ministries with more skepticism. Is it actually possible, they question, to create a safe space within an institution that they’ve experienced as oppressive? Jamie, who grew up Catholic, points to the teachings in Father James Martin’s Building a Bridge, a popular book on Catholics’ relationship to the LGBTQ community, as an example. “It’s the best thing that the Church has to offer, and it still falls so far short of what we actually need,” she said. “It doesn’t actually say we should have equal rights. It just says, like, ‘You shouldn’t bully LGBTQ people.’” To her, that feels like a low bar.

She suggested LGBTQ Catholics might be better off forming groups without official parish affiliation. …Maybe it’s not possible, she said, to have a truly affirming place within the church’s official purview.

Through Dignity, a national Catholic organization with a Pittsburgh branch, LGBTQ Catholics have carved out their own inclusive spaces for more than 50 years. A 72-year-old lifelong Catholic Pittsburgher, Ken Pruszynski has been involved at Dignity for 35 years. Since the pandemic began, the group has been meeting virtually. Still, it feels “like a family,” he said.

He generally felt “comfortable and included” in the parish he attended through the Diocese, too. Still, what he’s experienced at Dignity is different. In his former parish, he’d tell people he was gay if they asked, but he preferred to be a “little bit cautious.”

He doesn’t feel that inclination at Dignity. “At Dignity, you know, you can be really outrageous and hug somebody,” he said, laughing. …’

Being Catholic and LGBTQA+ is complicated, but there are resources out there. Wander through my #queer and catholic tag for more posts like this one.

Visit this post in particular for information about LGBTQA+ support within the Catholic Church, including specific ministries.

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So I gave up tumblr for lent but apparently I posted this??? Was this a thing that happened on April 1 to everyone?????

Crash

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Crash

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imagine what it must be like to do scholarship on the odyssey when your name is odysseus. big brain move like who is going to disagree w odysseus’ takes on the odyssey. nobody

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you know what dad? maybe i don't wanna be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned. it's a lot of pressure to put on me and honestly i've been feeling stressed recently because of it

#im gonna get excommunicated from the catholic church for reblogging this

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When it rains, it pours....

#pride and prejudice

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This video somehow pinpoints my exact sense of humor

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bridgerton valentines [part 1]

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what a difference a friend makes 

#bdg #louie zong

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Hellsite

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#I’ve never seen supernatural but I knew this was a photo of John Winchester without even checking the tabs #the enevitability of knowing about spn

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Disney kid? Nickelodeon kid? No, I’m sorry; I was a PBS Kids kid. I’m talking Arthur, Cyberchase, Ruff With Ruff Ruffman, Read Between the Lions, Sesame Street, Clifford, Dragon Tales, Martha Speaks, Maya and Miguel, Word Girl, Zoboomafoo, Sagwa, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, Zoom, Bob the Builder, Boobah (ngl don’t know why I liked that one so much), Postcards From Buster, Caillou (which I recognize now is actually terrible but I loved it as a kid), Curious George, Jay Jay the Jet Plane, The Berenstain Bears, Thomas, It’s a Big Big World, Noddy. And don’t even get me STARTED on the website! Those games were FIRE! and I was learning something?! I played on the PBS Kids Go website well into middle school, past when I stopped regularly watching the shows.

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horses are the car of the future if the future was the past