Catholic Left

Official tumblr for the Catholic Left Discord community. https://discord.gg/gMcdhRNEm We’re a space for building bridges in a time where we are burning them down. Let us have community beyond borders, in a true Catholic sense. We are lgbtq+, cis straight, global south, global north. We want to be a face of a trully universal Church where we can sit through uncomfortable conversations. The server is not open to minors. Come back later. People with more conservative Catholic views are welcome with the understanding that this space leans much more to the left and is built by and with marginalized peoples.

[the-catholic-left]

A server for those of us within the Holy Roman Catholic Church (or Roman-adjacent) who desire a community of faithful untainted by rightwing

This is our Catholic Leftist server. We love liberationist theology and sidewound mysticism.

[transbian-in-christ]

evangelical protestants will tell you statues of Mary or the Saints are idolatry and then do shit like this

[liirker-at-thresholds]

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

These ideas were not all here from the beginning. They are genuinely gaining experience that can be applied elsewhere

[juggalage]

Maybe the kids are alright.

[transbian-in-christ]

recently the Synod released a document addressing certain challenges facing the church, and in particular, it's relation to queer people. this includes recieving and analyzing testimony from real queer catholics, without judgement. this is the first time anything like this has happened as far as i can tell. an historic moment for queer catholics and for sure a step in the right direction.

God is good. Our Lady of Montevergine, pray for us

[transbian-in-christ]

is this anything?

[and-her-saints]

St. Óscar Romero

Salvadorian saint and martyr. "Voice of the voiceless", defender of the marginalized and the poor.

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[isuggesteatingtherich]

i have a suggestion

[i-suggest-landback]

me too

[i-suggest-prison-abolition]

Me three

[ohholydyke]

Happy feast day to St Julian of Norwich (yes ik she’s only canonized in the Anglican Church I don’t care she’s a canonized saint to me the anglicans got this one right) the best anchoress to ever live

- Penned the famous all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well line

- Wrote about a Christ who willingly chooses to become permanently disabled out of love for humanity and how this elevates the honor and dignity of the disabled body

- Lowkey a universalist?? She hedges it by going “of course disclaimer here I agree with the church” but fully espouses a theology in which all shall be saved and all shall be restored to Christ and thus all shall be well

- Had a cat

- Gave us gems like the world is a hazelnut

- Apparently cast Satan out of her anchorhold “the power of Christ compels you” style

- Was a renowned teacher and frequently sought after for advice in her community and by pilgrims including the famous Margery Kempe

- Seriously go read revelations of divine love/the shewings of Julian of Norwich it’s so good it changed my relationship with religion

[toocoolforhole]

this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt, but we have got to open the schools again. people genuinely seem to have forgotten that their personal lived experience isn’t indicative of the larger population, AND IF IT IS…… then you need researchers to support these assertions from a relevant data pool instead of a blog post from 2013 💀

[pmamtraveller]

sculptures of weeping Virgin Mary

[littleflowercerise]

Our flower ladies 🌷

[littleflowercerise]

This is one of my favorite quotes in the world.

It is attributed to the great Saint Catherine of Siena

"We’ve had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues- I see the world is rotten because of silence."

How true that is.

[venustapolis]

Christ Praying on the Mount of Olives (Hans Thoma, 1893)

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

it's really funny how the entire world basically just blew the fuck up six short years ago and nobody wants to admit that that may have had some lasting consequences lmao

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

like so much of Everything today is premised on the idea that the earth-shattering catastrophe which happened within living memory of everyone older than a third grader has had no meaningful material or psychological effects on the general public and i don't think that's good, lol.

"(some of) the top-line economic indicators (sorta) recovered (in most places) so everything is fine and we don't need to talk about it" is not a sustainable framework for interfacing with reality

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

"why is everyone so angry and paranoid now?" "why is politics so dysfunctional now?" "why is [x] [y] and [z] now? blah blah blah"

2020:

[jellyfishguy2]

*yelling from my cage* PRAY FOR THE DEAD, PRAY FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY WHO HAVE NO ONE ELSE PRAYING FOR THEMMMMMM

[littleflowercerise]

Spiritually I'm low-key kind of tradcath but I'm also a communist so

[sorrowsofasoul]