#the catholic church

[racefortheironthrone]

Having just recently attended a "shotgun wedding" myself, just curious in the Medieval Ages did it matter for inheritance for royals or high nobility if it was clear the precious little heir-to-be was obviously conceived before the wedding ceremony?

That's an excellent question!

The medieval Catholic Church often gets a bad rap on matters of marriage and sexuality, but the historical record often shows them to be more moderate and reasonable (if still profoundly premodern and often quite weird) than their reputation would suggest.

Specifically on the topic of bastardy, the medieval Catholic Church was not nearly as harsh and unforgiving in its canon law as the Westerosi. The Church's attitude was that, while sex out of wedlock was a sin, it was a sin that belonged to the parents and not to the child, so punishing the child would be unjust.

So what about the in-between area of a bride-to-be with a premarital pregnancy? Well, as far as canon law is concerned, a true shotgun wedding wouldn't be valid because the consent of the people getting married has been coerced - and to their credit, the medieval Catholic Church really cared about consent in marriage to the extent possible in a patriarchal society where marriage alliances were absolutely central to the acquisition and transfer of landed property and political power.

However, if the couple was just merely enthusiastic about their engagement and genuinely consented to be married, premarital pregnancy is not considered a canonical impediment to marriage and the marriage would be considered valid.

Likewise, because the Catholic Church saw it as its mission to encourage marriage and birth within wedlock and that punishing a child for the sins of the father was unjust, the Church was (and is) pretty liberal in how it treats the legitimacy of children. So for example, a child born but not concieved in wedlock is considered legitimate in canon law and thus would be entitled to baptism, confirmation, marriage, and other sacraments and would be treated like any other legitimate child in so far as their inheritance rights were concerned.

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #bastardy #history #medieval history #the catholic church #canon law

[shinobicyrus]

Reblog if you're a threat to humanity.

#listen I'm not Catholic #but most of my extended family is #and I was fooled into thinking that maybe - just maybe - #Pope Francis #was the ''good'' Pope #but then shit like this makes me remember: #the Catholic Church #just can't help itself #a part of me is kind of laughing because it's just an inherently ridiculous thing to say #like...really Padre? #we're looking at a resurgence of fascism - a land war in Europe #climate change #Genocide in Gaza #escalating tensions in the middle east #we just got over a goddamn PLAGUE #but people questioning the false dichotomies of gender? that's not just a threat - it's *THE* threat??? #obviously the rhetoric is awful and inflaming and terrifying #when one of the oldest and most powerful Religious Organizations in the World #calls other human beings a threat to HUMANITY ITSELF #Transphobia #Gender #Catholicism #Religion

[coochiequeens]

If the Catholic Church was going to allow men who identify as women into a woman only college would they eventually allow women who identified as men into thepriesthood? No because the they have too many centuries worth of traditions based on biological sex.

INDIANA

Catholic women's college in Indiana reverses policy change allowing applicants who ‘identify as women’

Saint Mary's College president wrote, 'We lost people’s trust and unintentionally created division where we had hoped for unity... For this, we are deeply sorry'

Published December 21, 2023 7:38pm EST

Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, reversed a recent decision to allow biological males to attend the university if they have a history of identifying as a woman.

Last month, President Katie Conboy told the faculty about the policy change in an email obtained by Fox News Digital.

"Saint Mary’s will consider undergraduate applicants whose sex assigned at birth is female or who consistently live and identify as women," Conboy emailed.

The school’s policy change drew harsh criticism from people like Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhoades, who reportedly urged the school to reverse course because the policy went against Catholic teachings.

On Wednesday, Conboy and the chair of the school’s board of trustees, Maureen Smith, emailed the Saint Mary's College community saying the school would return to its previous admission policy.

"When the board approved this update, we viewed it as a reflection of our college’s commitment to live our Catholic values as a loving and just community," the letter read. "We believed it affirmed our identity as an inclusive, Catholic, women’s college."

The two acknowledged in the letter that not all members of the community took the same position, with some worried it was more than a policy decision. Instead, some saw the move as "a dilution" of the school’s mission or even a threat to the school’s Catholic identity.

"As this last month unfolded, we lost people’s trust and unintentionally created division where we had hoped for unity," the letter read. "For this, we are deeply sorry.

"Taking all these factors into consideration, the Board has decided that we will return to our previous admission policy," the president and chairperson added.

The school was opened by four Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1844.

Earlier this year, Pope Francis told journalist Elisabetta Piqué for the Argentine daily newspaper La Nación, that "Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations."

"Why is it dangerous? Because it blurs differences and the value of men and women," he added.

He also noted that there is a major difference between caring for people who identify as transgender versus actually endorsing their values, noting the contrast "between what pastoral care is for people who have a different sexual orientation and what gender ideology is."

Fox News Digital's Alexander Hall contributed to this report.

I can't believe that not only am I posting from Fox, I still refuse to call it news, and agreeing with the Pope

If the Catholic Chuch wants to be inclusive in a meaningful way they can continue to provide shelter to speak up for refugees in Palestine and other war torn reigns

#usa #The Catholic Church #indiana #saint Mary's College #Notra Dame #The disappearance of women only spaces #Women only college #The Pope is right about one thing #Gender ideology today is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations #There's a wrong way to be inclusive #And there's a right way to be inclusive

[fretbored34]

Don't forget the priests 😬

#dank memes #fresh memes #funny memes #memes #lol #funny but true #so true #me irl lol #funny but not funny haha #oh no lol #adulting #mental health #catholic #catholiscism #catholocism #catholique #priest #priests #the catholic church #church #religión #christianity #christian faith #my body is a temple #my body is fucked #twitter #funny twitter #funny tweets

[doylewesleywalls]

#Tom Petty #the Catholic church

[notwhatiam]

Both of my two favorite pieces of media now include an element of “fuck around with the Catholic Church” 🤔

#inside job #the locked tomb #specifically RUNNING the Catholic Church in a really weird and underhanded way? #new headcanon: John Gaius worked for Cognito Inc. back before his cow wall building days #inside job part 2 #inside job 2 #inside job netflix #Gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #Nona the ninth #John gaius #the catholic church #tamsyn muir #Catholicism

[jameslmartellojr]

Not Woke, but Catholic.

#livingdivinemercy #frchrisalar #socialjustice #jesus #marx #nietzsche" on YouTube

#catholic #catholicism #christianity #youtube #spiritual warfare #jesus christ #blessed virgin mary #our lady #demon #marxism #marxist leninist #karl marx #roman catholic church #roman catholic #the catholic church #catholic church #church #jesuscristo #society of jesus #lord have mercy #lord jesus christ #divine mercy #cult of woke #woke culture #anti woke #woke #wokeness #social justice #socialism #socialists

[mysticalblizzardcolor]

God is ONE

Yesterday I had a conversation with a Catholic woman. After discussing Hare Krishna and Christianity, she asked me "which is the true God?" I answered that God is the true God. What other answer is there?

#iskcon #hare krishna #krishna #bhakti #srila prabhupada #vedic #music #bhagavad gita #The Catholic Church #Catholics #Christianity #interfaith dialogue #George Harrison #life itself #Instagram

[thoughtportal]

The final Magdalene Laundry was shut down in 1996. As The Woman in the Wall notes, these are a more modern injustice than some viewers may realise.

Series creator Joe Murtagh added: "Outside of Ireland, in my experience, this isn't really known about, and with the people who do tend to know about it, it's because they've seen films including the Magdalene Sisters or Philomena.

"When you read into it, you see how harrowing it was, the scale of it, and how many tens of thousands of lives it's touched. It was a bit of history that interested me and engaged me emotionally, but the driving factor was just people not knowing about it enough."

#article #the women in the walls #Magdalene Laundry #BBC #tv #Ireland #the catholic church

[blueiskewl]

The Simpsons

The Catholic Church. We've made a Few... Changes!

'The power of Christ compels you!!'

'The time for talk has passed. The Lord's work must be done.'

'Prayers through the front door deliveries through the back.'

#The Simpsons #the catholic church #comedy #fun #funny #humor #lol

[mitigatingchaos]

On The Church

“The Church is dying because Her pastors are afraid to speak in all truth and clarity. We are afraid of the media, afraid of public opinion, afraid of our own brethren! The good shepherd gives his life for his sheep” –Robert Cardinal Sarah, (one of the good ones.) Thanks to Bradley Bardon for sharing this. As a casual student of theology and different churches, it is my observation that the…

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#Enemies from within The Church #Robert Cardinal Sarah #The Catholic Church

[ocean-not-found]

Attending 8am Catholic Mass

Then LDS Mass(//church) at 10am.

My only problem? My family at the Catholic Church keep me talking for like... h o u r s...

Anyway yea. Its a difficult time, two Masses, two Jesus, two sets of people to speak to and TWO churches to help out at!!

#gay #lds #lds church #the church of jesus christ of latter day saints #jesus christ #jesus hippie #hippie christian #hippie #peace and love #catholic #folk catholicism #lgbtqia #catholic lgbt #lgbt catholic #gay mormon #the catholic church #mother mary #folk catholic #lgbt #eucharist #gnostic christianity #christian

[cantquitu]

Podcast recommendation: I never do this, but I recommend listening to anything by Connie Walker. She's a journalist from the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan, working originally with CBC and now Gimlet Media. Her podcasts focus on Indigenous stories.

I've listened to everything I can find of hers over the past few years. The stories she chooses to illuminate, and how she blends investigative reporting with a personal perspective, make for really gripping and moving podcasts. So when she won a Pulitzer and a Peabody last week, I felt personally invested and proud!

She won for Stolen: Surviving St Michael's, about the abuse suffered by her family and generations of Indigenous children in Canada's residential schools at the hands of the Catholic Church in collusion with the Canadian government.

As an Irish person, the horror of the residential schools is depressingly familiar, but coupled with the racism and cultural genocide suffered by Indigenous kids in Canada, it's almost too much to bear. That's what's so amazing about this podcast - despite the unbearable subject matter, you feel you have to listen, and there's hope there.

Anyway, this is a random post but I felt so glad to hear that Connie Walker's work and her family's story is being recognised!

#this post goes out to the bizarre and contextless anonymous ask i got from someone who was butthurt about how i write about #the catholic church #on my own blog #lol! #podcast recs #stolen surviving st michaels #connie walker

[lildoodlenoodle]

The priest forgot to bring holy water to a grave site and just took my sisters half drank water bottle to use instead.

#my sisters back wash was blessed into holy water #priests #the catholic church #bane of my existence #fantastic aesthetic tho #but yea that’s symbolic for smth #don’t know what #but definitely smth #… #supernatural #dean winchester #yea

[keg-the-imp]

okay this is based of a convo I had with my boyfriend

#please do not ask whose hyperfixations these are #im begging you #tumblr polls #mcr #hannibal #hannibal nbc #the catholic church #rpf

[torusquebec]

They love me for my philosophical optimism and my oppressive nature

#the catholic church #modern denominational christianity