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yes, broadly

Did i ever post this here

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I have always dreamed of interviewers asking basic questions of the killer clowns who run America. I can't believe it took Tucker Carlson to do it.

I’ve heard Cruz talk about deposing “the mullahs” for 13 years straight. During the 2016 GOP primary, he said he wanted to see if “sand glows in the dark.” You’d figure he’d learn some basic facts about the main villain in his moral universe in that time

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to all artists painting the same thing over and over and to all writers writing the same story over and over

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My gramma has been sewing for fifty years and she says a prayer every time she starts her machine

“Lord, I don’t like sewing without you,” — my gramma, just now.

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Steve McCurry

Cammino di Francesco – Rieti, Italy

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God it's me again

Source: Pinterest

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I honestly find it fascinating that for eons, literally since the dawn of human existence, midwives and other healers have viewed the mother and child as a dyad. They are two that form one in the sense that they are both their own people, but form one unit to ensure stability and survival. This has been seen scientifically through MRIs of mothers (and even fathers!) who bond with their babies after birth. We see this psychologically in mothers/fathers who are distressed when they are not near their child. We see how toxic and evil lack of maternity/paternity leave is when a mother leaves her 2 week old baby with a babysitter yet it’s illegal to separate a puppy from their mother before 8 weeks.

We also see this on the microscopic level. From the intricate workings of conception and fertility to the various changes in gestation. Each year we learn more and more about the inter-play between mother’s health and baby’s health. How their hormones and blood levels communicate with one another. How a sick mother creates a sick baby’s and vice versa.

Even today there are lactation experts and birth workers who call this interplay a dyad, a reflection of how nature functions and how that is seen in our primal humanity.

So why is it that hundreds of thousands of years can pass by, knowing this wisdom, yet people will change their tune to “unborn children and babies are parasites” in just a handful of decades? Why is it cool that the first female profession to exist is midwifery yet we ignore the wisdom and inherent knowledge of the dyad it has given us? Why are children able to become our enemies at the flip of a political switch, born or unborn? Are we enemies of our own mothers and children, or are we meant to be so much more than that?

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sometimes sanctification is taking little baby steps while God holds your hand and nudges you in the right direction. and sometimes you can only stand by and watch while the Holy Spirit takes a 10000 psi pressure washer and absolutely blasts your insides

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"I always thought legalizing euthanasia was a no-brainer. 

It always seemed to me like an individual choice people ought to have, akin to legalizing abortion or same-sex marriage. 

If someone is in such pain that they decide to end their life, I thought, who are we as a society to tell them they can’t? 

There’s also a harm reduction component. If someone is dead set on ending their lives, shouldn’t we give them a relatively safe, effective option under medical supervision? It would be cruel not to. 

This was the rationale behind the 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Carter v. Canada, which determined prohibition of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) was unconstitutional. 

But the legalization of MAiD has brought to the fore some disturbing moral calculations, particularly with its expansion in 2019 to include individuals whose deaths aren’t “reasonably foreseeable,” which opened the floodgates for people with disabilities to apply to die rather than survive on meagre benefits. 

I’ve come to realize euthanasia in Canada has become the ultimate neoliberal policy — we’ll starve you of the funding you need to live a dignified life, demand you pay back pandemic aid you applied for in good faith, and if you don’t like it, well, why don’t you just kill yourself? 

The problem with my previous perspective was it held individual choices as sacrosanct. But people don’t make individual decisions in a vacuum. They’re the product of social circumstances, ones often out of their control.

Tim Stainton, director of the Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship at the University of British Columbia, told the Associated Press that Canada’s MAiD policy is “probably the biggest existential threat to disabled people since the Nazis’ program in Germany in the 1930s.”

This sounds hyperbolic, but there are endless examples of people with disabilities who were offered euthanasia rather than live a life of pain and exclusion. And with the impending expansion of MAiD to include people with mental illnesses, the problem is only going to get worse."

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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"In the fourth vote, the ballots overwhelmingly shifted" to Cardinal Prevost, Cardinal You of South Korea said.

Cardinal Müller sat behind the American front-runner in the Sistine Chapel and noticed that he seemed calm. Cardinal Tagle, who sat next to Cardinal Prevost, noticed him taking deep breaths as votes amassed in his favor.

"I asked him, 'Do you want a candy?' and he said, 'Yes'," Cardinal Tagle said.

During one of the votes, Cardinal Tobin, as he held his ballot high and put it in the urn, turned and saw Cardinal Prevost, whom he had known for about 30 years.

"I took a look at Bob," Cardinal Tobin said, "and he had his head in his hands."

-- A fascinating inside-the-Sistine-Chapel look at the Conclave that elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, via the New York Times.

I love the image of one Cardinal offering candy to another Cardinal who is trying not to hyperventilate because he realizes he's about to be elected Pope.

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I....am....speechless...

Protestants are the Christian version of slippery slope and anything goes... I miss the "good old days" when their argument was only about "old-fashioned" classical hymnody and Mary. Now even Communion and Baptism are wrong according to them.

There's no point of getting into argument with these people. Their hearts and minds are already fixated.

@arcenciel-par-une-larme @apilgrimpassingby

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Students at Mt. Carmel (Chicago) learning about the process of electing a pope by staging a mock conclave and elected their own pope, who took the name Augustine.

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Fellas I’m calling it now, deep dish is gonna cause a schism.

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oh did anyone else realize that the grade school mock conclave that went sort of viral elected pope augustine who said everyone whould pray more rosaries and then a few hours later we got pope leo xiv (namesake of the “rosary pope”) who is an augustinian monk?

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there's a bird on the conclave livestream getting his 5 minutes of fame

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i love the conclave. what do you mean the entire world has tv cameras trained on the chimney of an old italian palace waiting for days or weeks until the color of the smoke changes and we find out who’s been elected as the next supreme dictator of catholicism