#bishops — Public Fediverse posts
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“There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only persons known by name to have been punished for homosexual acts were prominent bishops.”
― John Boswell#Bot #Quote #Bishops #Christianity #Church #GayRights #RomanEmpire
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Illustration by Master of San Miniato, from Vaticinia de Pontificibus, BL Harley 1340 (15th century).
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/d8327eaf-4209-4896-bafe-8b7b2c48766b
#popes #manuscripts #religion #angels #bishops #prophecy #lambs #art #publicdomain
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The Vatican excommunicated six bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X on Thursday, while warning that any lay believers who "formally adhere" to the fraternity would suffer the same fate. Reporting from Rome, FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta explains that the breakaway group deny key tenets of the Catholic Church, specifically its modernisation, interreligious dialogue and repairing ties with other Christian denominations.
#Vatican #schism #bishops
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Lefebvrians consecrate four new bishops without a papal mandate
At the headquarters of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X in Switzerland, Bishops Alfonso de Galarreta and…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #bishops #Headlines #HolySee #PopeLeoXIV #TopStories
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Saint Hilaire, eveque, 1630s
etching 216 x 125 mm - Mackelvie Trust Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, bequest of Dr Walter Auburn, 1982
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki via DigitalNZhttp://api.digitalnz.org/records/1839982/source
#Saints #Vestments #Miters #Prayers #Faith #Worship #Altars #Christianity #ReligiousArt #Bishops #Mannerist #Print #Etching #Museums
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Sounds like good news. The last of the UK's hereditary peers pose for a group photo before being stripped of their political privilege.
Reality: it's bad news. The #hereditaryPeers and the #bishops are the only members of the #HouseOfLords who are not cronies appointed by the#PrimeMinister.
The whole House of Lords should be replaced by a democratic chamber, but until then the hereditary peers and bishops are the least stinky part of the stinky sewer of corruption. #TheMadCountry
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…El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who…heads the #migration cmte of the #US #bishops' conference, said the conference is discussing whether to issue a statement about the #Trump admin's treatment of #immigrants during its annual meeting, to be held in Baltimore from Nov 10-13.
"Without question, this issue will be a major, if not the major, topic that we undertake during the bishops' meeting," he said.
#immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #CivilRights #HumanRights #law #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfReligion
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Illustration by Stanislaw Samostrzelnik, from Catalogus Archiepiscoporum Gnesnensium Vitae episcoporum Cracoviensium (1531-1535).
Source: National Digital Library of Poland
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/38bb1edc-3166-4dfc-891f-ebc42b75a766
#religion #mitres #medieval #bishops #christianity #archbishops #heraldry #art #publicdomain
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"The Japanese have a saying that sums up the bishops’ lawsuits and statements: 'Squeezing one’s buttocks after a fart.'
Those who find themselves among the American bishops would be well-advised to wear a gas mask."
To which I say a hearty amen.
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"They cannot lead because they no longer have followers. They are no longer heard, let alone heeded. …
Apart from a wholesale reconstitution of the American hierarchy, it is unlikely that the Church in the United States will become a prophetic presence at a time when prophets are more needed than ever."
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Now, belatedly and rather than lamenting and admitting their abdication of pastoral leadership, a few bishops are filing lawsuits to try to curb the cruelty of the administration, its attacks on immigrants, its destruction of aid programs, etc.
Too little, too late, and entirely unsystemic, this piecemeal approach of filing lawsuits. Grimm says,
"The sad truth is that the bishops must rely upon lawyers because they no longer are able to lead America’s Catholics."
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William Grimm notes the futility of the choice now of a few US Catholic bishops to try to exercise moral leadership after the bishops as a body did all but stand on their heads to place Trump in the White House. As he notes, under their leadership, many US Catholics were led to support Trump in two elections — in which some 6 in 10 white Catholics voted for Trump.
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On "real Christians."
This is a lightly edited version of a post I first made several years ago on Facebook. Sadly, it never seems to stop being relevant.
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Every time I hear #Christians saying "they're not real Christians" or "this isn't real #Christianity," about other Christians doing something that brings discredit on the ##religion, my skin crawls.
Because if they're not Christians ... well, neither was Constantine. Neither were the generations of #monarchs who followed, invoking the divine right of kings. Neither were the #popes and #bishops and #priests—and note that I'm not just talking about #Catholics here—who almost universally supported and legitimized the idea that #God had put our leaders in place, and to oppose them was #blasphemy.
Neither were the #Crusaders, the #Inquisitors, the #witch-burners. Neither were the soldiers who fought generations of #religious #wars within #Christendom, including the Thirty Years' War that wrought devastation equal to both World Wars. Neither for that matter were the politicians who gave us what we *call* the First World War, in which most of the major combatants on both sides proudly claimed the Christian label, and in several cases were still official theocracies.
Neither were the Christians who rounded up their #Jewish neighbors in the Second for delivery to the camps—and if you claim that was the work of a #neopagan cult that maybe a few thousand people total ever took seriously, I'll laugh in your face before cutting you out of my life. (But I'll remember who and what you are, believe me.) Neither were the people who used Christianity to justify #conquest and #slavery and #genocide and #segregation, for centuries, and in many cases still do.
In short, if you say these people aren't Christians, you're saying most Christians throughout the *entire history of the religion* weren't Christians. You can die on that hill if you really want to. But you'll die alone, and most likely at the hands of your fellow believers.
Christians are, as a rule, no worse than other people. But you're no better, either. Do you *want* to be better? Great, that's what everyone else wants too.
So prove it. Stop making excuses. Own these people, and *then* confront them. Admit that they're yours, and then expunge them. Scourge the heretics with fire and sword, and send them wailing into the outer darkness tearing their hair and gnashing their teeth. Cast them into the lake of fire.
If you do this, if you have first the moral and then the physical courage to face this monstrosity in your midst unflinchingly and with full knowledge of what it is, then you'll have plenty of help. #Jews and #Muslims and #Hindus and #Wiccans and #atheists and all the rest won't just cheer you on. We'll be right there by your side.
And while there are in the US still more Christians than all of us put together, there aren't more of *this kind* of Christian than all decent human beings put together. We can't fight them alone. Neither can you. Together we can—as long as you're honest about what that means.
If you don't? We'll be right back to #Torquemada, with a high-tech gloss. You might live a little longer than the rest of us, but not by much, and you'll go to the rack and the stake and the oven with the words of your own holy writ shouted in your ears.
Those are the only two options. Your choice.
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Addendum:
I have a great many friends who grew up Christian, and left the religion at some point. Despite having made the choice to walk away from their childhood faith, they often feel the reflexive need to defend the people they were, and in most cases their families still are.
Those who are still Christians, of whom I trust I also have a fair number left, may feel the same impulse—although interestingly, it seems to me they're less reflexive on the whole than the former believers.
We're all made of our #history. The people we were are still the people we are, in some corner of our brains. And there are complexities about being on the inside of any group that outsiders can never quite grasp. It's similar to the way I am about the #military, which is practically a religion in its own right.
Okay. Stipulated, as lawyers say on TV and maybe in real life too. I get it. Now please get this:
Unless you *grew up* as a member of a religious minority, you will most likely never understand, on a gut level, the terror the majority religion inflicts by its very existence.
This isn't unique to Christianity, to be clear. Every majority religion, in every time and place, has unconsciously (and often consciously as well, to be sure) been casually brutal to infidels and heretics. Nature of the beast. But here in the US, that beast invariably carries a cross, so there's the focus of my attention.
You don't have to understand it. Just accept that it exists, and it leaves scars. I can live with those scars, and so can nearly everyone else who bears them. That *stigma*, if you will.
But if you cut us, we still bleed. We'll heal from those wounds too, and add new scars to the old. Long after the bleeding stops, we'll remember who gave them to us.
Here I stand; I can do no other. How about you?
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#Catholic #bishops are suing the Trump administration for recently ❌suspending funding for refugee resettlment under its ban on foreign aid.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is the largest private resettlment program in the US
and one of 10 national agencies that serve refugees.
The conference says the halt in foreign aid has resulted in the Trump administration witholding millions of dollars,
including for reimbursements of costs incurred before the ban went into effect.The lawsuit notes that the resettlement program isn’t even foreign aid
– but rather domestic support for newly arrived refugees.
“The Catholic Church always works to uphold the common good of all
and promote the dignity of the human person, especially the most vulnerable among us,”
said Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the USCCB.“The conference suddenly finds itself unable to sustain its work to care for the thousands of refugees who were welcomed into our country and assigned to the care of the USCCB by the government after being granted legal status.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-elon-musk-eric-adams-us-politics-live-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67b51afa8f08cae10d799583#block-67b51afa8f08cae10d799583 -
The Right Reverend CW Stubbs, Bishop of Truro, c.1910 - Rotary RP Postcard
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July 14 -- On this date in history:
In 1789, French peasants stormed the #Bastille prison in Paris, beginning the French Revolution. The event is commemorated as "Bastille Day," a national holiday in France.In 1793, Jean Paul #Marat, one of the most outspoken leaders of the French Revolution was stabbed to death in his bath by Charlotte Corday, a Royalist sympathizer. The murder was immortalized in a painting by Jacques-Louis David.
In 1881, outlaw #Billy the Kid was shot to death at a ranch in New Mexico.
In 1914, Robert #Goddard, father of the space age, was granted the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design. His first rocket soared for about 2 seconds, flew as fast as 60 mph and landed 174 feet from the lift-off pad.
In 1933, all political parties except the #Nazis were officially suppressed in Germany.
In 1966, eight student nurses were found killed in Chicago. Drifter Richard #Speck, later convicted of the slayings, died in prison in 1991.
In 1968, future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Hank #Aaron became the eighth person to hit 500 home runs for the Atlanta Braves in a win over the San Francisco Giants.
In 2007, Russian President Vladimir #Putin announced that his country would suspend its participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, a Cold War agreement that limited deployment of heavy weaponry.
In 2009, within months after repaying bailout money supplied by the U.S. government, New York banking giant #Goldman Sachs reported a profit of $3.44 billion for the first quarter of the year. JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup also reported big profits.
In 2014, the Church of England's governing body voted to allow women to become #bishops for first time in the church's history.
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe came within 7,800 miles of #Pluto, providing NASA scientists with the clearest photographs and most detailed measurements they've ever seen of the dwarf planet.
In 2016, 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, were killed when a truck drove into a crowd. The #Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
In 2019, Novak #Djokovic defeated Roger Federer to win his fifth Wimbledon title in a marathon five-set match that lasted nearly 5 hours.
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#Critics call #US #bishops' new #website on #sexuality a #disappointment, #harmful.
The site takes a #Socraticmethod-type approach and tackles numerous topics — #divorce, #marriage, #genderidentity, #sexualorientation, #pornography, #parenthood — beginning with the question: "What is #love?"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Spirituality #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://www.ncronline.org/news/critics-call-us-bishops-new-website-sexuality-disappointment
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What, no more #Jesus on #toast?
For the longest time, #Catholic #churches and individuals have made money from claims of the #supernatural, such as #religious statues weeping or bleeding or the image of #Jesus appearing on toast or in stains on walls, people claiming to have seen visions of #Mary, and so on. Some of these claims were given credence by local #priests and #bishops.
The #Catholicchurch has decided that this nonsense has gone too far.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2024/05/18/what-no-more-jesus-on-toast/
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The Right Reverend CW Stubbs, Bishop of Truro, c.1910 - Rotary RP Postcard
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For #US #bishops, #religiousfreedom is a #oneway #street
Only #Christian #denominations need apply.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/us-bishops-religious-freedom-one-way-street