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nichole | 30 | she/her | lesbian | vampire romance writer |

[nocontextpsych]

[jacqueattack]

the 30 year old mental breakdown is a lot more exhausting the 20 year old. i wanna punch someone and shave my head and drink whiskey.

[jacqueattack]

i thought it was a masterful gambit before all this shit to kill SAVE right before the midterms....but since that was announced we've killed the economy and gone to war with iran 2, 3 times now, the sky is one fire, mitch is schrodingers senator, and shit's so much more fucked....

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags what your blog title (not URL!) is a reference to.

[digitalmyyth]

Hanging out with people will make you remember you're the crazy woke friend for like. not wanting to shop at shien

[kosmogrl]

[girl-blorbo-polls]

If you were handcuffed to your girl blorbo with magical unbreakable handcuffs for 24h, would you be okay with this?

I trust her, I’ll be fine

I trust her, but it’ll be a stressful 24h

It depends on what kind of day we’re having

This is gonna suck…

Other/nuance

Voting ended onJul 19

[jacqueattack]

and i'd love to trust their opinion on what is and isn't racist, but they told me once that eating melting cheese shreds on tostitos is racist so....

[jacqueattack]

anyways, fairly confident i'm not the asshole in this scenario and proud of my nervous system for being semi well adjusted today bc damn that would have sent me spiraling back in the day

[jacqueattack]

and like i don't doubt i fucked up and said or did something racist, i grew up in a white supremecist household. i'm going to be working on that until i die.

but the fuck is it only coming up after i've said you've made me uncomfortable?

[jacqueattack]

established a boundary today and got called a racist so that's fun

[vamplire]

if you see me getting manipulated by a beautiful vampire do not intervene, i am right where i want to be.

[gobloggirl]

Lady Miss Kier wearing Mr Pearl, Wigstock (1992)

[newsandstuffisee]

[dvandom]

Heading towards another antipope?

(Source: BlueSky)

Okay, brief summary.

In the early 1960s, the "Vatican II" ecumenical council enacted a bunch of reforms...as bad as you might think the Catholic Church is, it used to be worse. Needless to say, there was a bunch of people who didn't care for this newfangled stuff like "liturgy in something other than Latin" or "women have a role in the Church other than Nun and Mother." One such organized group is the Secret Society of Super-Villains Society of St. Pius X. Back in the 70s they tried anointing their own bishops and a lot of them got excommunicated for it. The rest played by the rules and were a constant voice of dissent against all these "debasements" of the Church.

Well, we're hitting the point that there's not a lot of SSPX'er bishops left alive (they were careful to not get EVERYONE kicked out in the 70s), and without new bishops they can't ordain new priests who will follow their "it's not a schism, it's the True Church" precepts. Unlike a lot of Protestant confessions where someone can just sort of start up a church if they can get followers, Catholic Priests have to be properly ordained by Catholic Bishops who in turn have to be approved by the Pope. He doesn't have to directly ordain them, but he does need to issue an official "yeah, go for it" statement.

In the morning of July 1, 2026, in Switzerland (a stronghold of the PX'ers) one of the surviving bishops (the guy on the left of the image above) ran a big ceremony where a number of new bishops were ordained ("apostolic succession" being the technical term, the guy in the middle being one of the new supposed bishops), and when they got to the part where the Pope's statement is supposed to be read, he just said they didn't need an obviously wrong-headed Pope's permission (not in those words, but I am told that the flowery language employed counted as very bitchy in ecclesiastic terms) and went ahead with it.

So, after letting most of the day go by, the Pope's office just issued a statement that the "Lefebvrians" (the guy who started the Secret Society of Super-Pious) had excommunicated themselves by doing something that was clearly a no-no. No specific action required by the Pope, there's actions that have long been considered self-excommunicating, and ordaining bishops without permission or accepting such an ordination are on the list. (A while back I looked up the list of recent excommunications, most of them had to do with "someone ordained someone else without permission.")

Still, as long as the Pius Primes still claim to be Catholic, it's not AFAIK technically a Schism. But without new bishops, the sect will die off as all its clergy die of old age, so I guess schism is around the corner if they refuse to go quietly.

[anothercrankyblogger]

Y'know I've got a great idea for these SSPX guys. If they've got such a problem with Pope Leo, maybe they should get together and put together a list of grievances, a thesis, if you would. And to really get the Vatican's attention, they can march right down to Rome and nail that thesis right to Leo's front door!

[jacqueattack]

genuinely considering a podcast