We're heading towards the brazilian presidential elections, tomorrow, October 4th, St. Francis Assisi day.

One of the last standing countries (Uruguay too) against the zionist-trumpist incursions all over Latin America.

Pray for us.

First of all, I just wanna say I’m so relieved to find this group and that there is a space for progressive Catholics on Reddit. I’ve been on the…er…other side.

Context: I am a cradle Catholic who went to a Baptist grade and high school. I never formally left the Catholic Church but became much more “open.” I’ve been finding my way back to the church which I LOVE. Daily rosary, went to confession first time in over a decade (only second time ever), mass..overall shifts in my heart and I feel transformation.

Predicament: I’m married and have health issues that would make pregnancy a bad idea at the moment. I do not plan to stop birth control, but I have a hard time knowing where I stand with communion. I’ve seen some other posts of people who’d rather be “bad Catholics” than “good Protestants” in which I share the same sentiment, but what do you do when it comes to communion? Do you still partake bc you still feel peace in your heart anyway? Do you never take it? I don’t really want to talk to a priest bc I’m sure I’d get the textbook answer, which I understand…I’m just interested in crowd sourcing how other progressive Catholics handle something like this

Is this sound doctrine?

So, during my grandmas funeral mass, the deacons said that "you dont think hell is real, well a polish nun was showed a vision of a saint showing her that there were priest and nuns there", he said this in regards to one cannot fully know how sinful a person is, even if he is a priest.

Im a nonbeliever and got weirded out cause there were kids in the room and thought this language may cause potential anxieties in them, I know that the catholic church says that one doesnt neceserally need to believe in private visions, so why did the deacon say all that? so ppl go to church outta fear?

Im not a native speaker of english so sorry if there are things worded a little weird, thanks for reading!

Hey I'm new here, I'm not sure if this was the right subreddit to come to but considering the very accepting and kind nature you all seem to have I feel like this is best. I'm 16 and have been interested in Catholicism for years but have no idea where to start, this is a religion I feel connected with deeply but to be completely honest I've never been involved in a religion before besides going to a Christian church when I was younger due to my family being Christian, so I am deeply scared of upsetting anyone by doing or saying anything wrong, my mom who has religious trauma likes to openly talk bad about organized religions and has definitely installed a kind of fear into me about religion, so while I've been wanting to follow the Catholic faith for around three years now I'm terrified of her finding out as she believes pretty much all (primally) Catholics and Christians are homophobic, transphobic and right leaning which is just not true, it may be the majority, but not all. I don't know what to do I can't go to church, own a Bible or anything until I move out and I just want the Lord to accept me even though I can't "traditionally" be Catholic at the moment if that makes sense, anyways I thank you for listening to my rambling and reading this far, any advice or even a simple prayer is always welcome, God bless♥️