[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[disgruntledexplainer]

The danger of humanity becoming a victim of its own achievements was already clearly recognized by Saint Paul VI, who warned that “the most extraordinary scientific progress, the most astounding technical feats and the most amazing economic growth, unless accompanied by authentic moral and social progress, will in the long run go against man.” For this reason, technological progress — valuable in itself — requires careful discernment of the anthropological vision that guides it and the ends it pursues. If technological development advances without a corresponding ethical and social progress, the result may be an increase in means without a growth in humanity: “having more” without “being more.” In such a scenario, there is a risk that individuals will be evaluated principally according to the outcomes they produce.

-Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

"[...] How can a great and wise civilization have destroyed itself so completely?” “Perhaps,” said Apollo, “by being materially great and materially wise, and nothing else.”

-Walter M Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz

The thematic parallels between Papa Leo's first encyclical and my favorite sci-fi novel are stunning.

[dailycatsblog]

[seraphex]

saw an opinion i disagreed with and didn’t say anything about it. +350XP

[assflat]

FREE ME!!!!!!! Idk from what...I just want to be free from literally everything

[magdaleneanthony]

«  she should be in the club » everyone knows your late twenties are for becoming increasingly offputtingly religious

[universeleads]

Guys what if there was a character

[prettyboysinpain]

…and what if we hurt the character🤔

[waltz-in-code]

You know that society is morally bankrupt when they don't know how to define life, death, human dignity, rights, etc.

[faithshaped]

[through gritted teeth] this will make me grow in virtue

[faithshaped]

saint catherine of siena was right burdens do become lighter when you drown yourself in the blood of jesus crucified

[longstoryshort-143]

the horrors persist but so do books, art, hot chocolate, winter nights, the moon, the sea, the stars, sunsets, literature, libraries, cats, flowers, stories, love and the wistful feeling you get when you finally return home

[catholic-on-main]

Is this anything?

[catholicapothecary]

When we speak of dignity, we do not always use the word in the same way. Sometimes we refer to moral dignity, namely the way in which a person directs his or her choices and actions. At other times, we think of social dignity, which refers to a person’s living conditions and the concrete respect received from society. In other cases, we refer to existential dignity, meaning the way in which a person perceives his or her own worth and the value of life. These aspects of dignity can be enhanced or diminished. In addition to these notions, there is also the more profound and important level of ontological dignity. This is the dignity that belongs to every human being simply by virtue of existing, of having been willed, created and loved by God. No sin, failure, humiliation or exclusion can diminish the profound value of a human life that God has willed and called into being.

Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

[sugar-petals]

this just in. our whole ass pope has politely announced the crusade against slop

[vent-fucker]

[waltz-in-code]

Idk why but I was just casually having breakfast when I glanced at the picture of Christ I have on my wall and I suddenly felt deeply moved by how much He loves us and teared up...

[aniconist]

Not to sound like a tradcath or whatever people want to call it now, but atheists really created a culture in which people are all just as guilty as if they were under religious/theocratic rule, but they removed the forgiveness of God/repentance. So now it’s just arbitrary human laws with no sense of salvation… Cool, surely this is the best and most empathetic world-view to have

[tlaquetzqui]

“Every little emancipation from theology is accompanied by truly fearsome demonstrations of moral fanaticism. It is the penance they pay.”—Friedrich Nietzsche on moralistic atheists

[catholicapothecary]

In the Church we again meet with this same harmony between things most difficult to reconcile. In her, charity most compassionate and doctrine most firm and uncompromising are united in one love, which is zeal for God's glory and the salvation of souls. She knows she can do no good without combating evil, that she cannot preach the Gospel without fighting heresy. Mercy and firmness of doctrine can exist only when united; separated they die, and we have left but two corpses, namely, humanitarian Liberalism with its false serenity, and fanaticism with its false zeal. It has been said: "The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle, because they do not believe, and intolerant in practice, because they do not love." On the one hand, theory is oppased to practice; on the other, it penetrates and arranges all things with firmness and gentleness.

Fr. Reginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, God, His Existence and Nature