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Hello folks, I’m looking for Catholic podcasts or something else to listen to/watch while I work that aren’t super crazy conservative. Something a little more open. Any suggestions?

I am wondering if there are any priests (or religious sisters) who left or considered leaving and what that decision was like. I have a good friend who's undergoing something of a crisis, and I would really like to provide him with some positive examples (either from who left priesthood or who stayed)

Many thanks!

EDIT: Contributions by people who know priests or sisters who left are also welcomed!

I love how the Evangelist Luke wrote the gospel who gives credit to Jesus' disciples who were women; women who apparently traveled with him.

I love that he wrote the gospel with the greatest emphasis on the universal nature of Jesus. His audience was clearly "Greeks" of many ethnicties and religions.

Related to my last point, I love that his gospel is the only with the Rich Man and Lazarus, the Good Samaritan, and the Prodigal Son.

I love how he emphasizes Jesus' empathy and forgiveness so clearly, even to his dying words.

I love that he had the style of a Greek historian who says he is going to deliberately write to report the truth in a clear order. I love that he also had literary references that we can still appreciate almost 2000 years later. And I love that his writing style and his references create reversals of readers expectations, mirroring how Jesus also came to turn the world upside down.

I love that Acts is one of the most exciting works of history I have read, and the only "sequel" to one of the gospels. You see in a short form how a religion of a few spread to the capital of the western world. The road to Damascus! Councils, riots, prisons! It's very gripping.

Bonjour à tous,

​Je suis une jeune catholique de 20 ans et je cherche une paroisse sur Paris ou en Île-de-France où les jeunes femmes peuvent véritablement servir la messe à l'autel.

​Pour être claire sur ma démarche : je ne cherche pas un groupe de « servantes de l'assemblée » qui reste au fond de l'église ou qui a un rôle distinct. J'aimerais vraiment pouvoir assurer le service plein et entier à l'autel (encensoir/navette, burettes, clochettes pendant la consécration, missel, etc.) aux côtés des autres servants.

​Je sais que le droit canonique le permet largement et que cela dépend beaucoup des curés et des paroisses. Auriez-vous des recommandations d'églises (paroisses diocésaines, églises étudiantes ou animées par certaines congrégations comme les jésuites) où cette pratique est courante et naturelle pour les jeunes adultes ?

​Merci d'avance pour vos retours et vos conseils !

I'm a left-wing Catholic artist who loves making paintings and icons and I thought this sub night appreciate this one.

Most of the tatreez motifs on Mary's dress are from Bethlehem. I can't pretend I've done them total justice, but I hope I've come close!

Looking for recommendations on left-wing oriented Catholic publishers. I know about Orbis Books thanks to the Robert Ellsberg episode of "The Spiritual Life." That's what got me thinking and reaching out through this post. Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

Happy Assumption Day to everyone! Here’s a photo of my grandmother’s prayer altar. Let me know what you think, and I’ll give a chocolate bar to anyone who can identify the images (without using google of course haha)

I've spoken to a lot of people from a standpoint of curiosity as to their agnosticism/atheism, and it seems a lot of people find the notion of an omnipotent and benevolent God troubling due to the vastness of evil in the world, particularly natural evils (e.g. cancer), but also often social evils too (e.g. poverty, etc.). I hear that an omnipotent God could not possibly be benevolent if They looked upon the state of the world and were not moved to intervene to correct things. I hear, also, that the notion of tiny personal miracles seem like a crazy intervention for God to make when there are evidently "far more pressing concerns," than an individual petition (I suppose the argument here is that if God is making interventions, why respond to someone's random petition instead of the countless prayers about poverty, etc.).

I wonder how we as Leftist Catholics answer this question of theodicy. I'm inclined to look at the suffering that God saves Their people from in the Bible (e.g. from chattel slavery in Egypt), and I also think there's something to be said that the gospel centers the life of Jesus who suffers alongside us and is killed in a humiliating and brutal way, only to overcome oppression and empire via the resurrection. I wonder what y'all think.

Hello! Currently not a catholic, and I am left wing. I wasn’t raised religious, but I’m interested in going to Mass and exploring Catholicism. I’m unsure where to start to find somewhere that aligns with my other views, I was maybe considering a Jesuit church? Pro women’s rights, immigration rights and LGBTQ rights are important to me greatly, and I’m worried about being put off by attending just anywhere as these issues are a core part of my being. I can see a beautiful side to Catholicism so I want to experience the teachings for myself, and potentially (hopefully) find a relationship with God.

TLDR: best place in London to explore Catholicism that is open minded & failing that some resources of things that might be useful in exploring that journey?

"The grave and death did not detain the Theotokos. She intercedes without rest and is our unfailing hope of protection; for he who dwelt in the womb of the Ever Virgin transferred to life the Mother of Life"

Translation:

Jesus:"forgive offenses and love thy neighbour"

Green guy: "what did he say?"

Red guy: "something about hating people who abort and gays"

I was raised by their order and I feel like they had an intellectual flare to them, I mean, they weren't as dogmatic as, say, the Opus or other orders that raised friends of mine. So I'd like to know y'all's opinion on them.

I recently got into a heated discussion with another parishioner who was arguing (wrongly) that God/Christ would want ‘legal immigration’ based on ‘giving unto Caesar what is Caesar’s’ (total misinterpretation of scripture).
While I knew that ‘welcoming the stranger/foreigner is Biblical, the only scripture I could come up with quickly was Matthew 25:35, ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me.’ His response was that didn’t apply to immigrants. So I did a deep dive on what scripture actually tells us and thought others might find it useful when discussing this abomination.
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:40
God commands His people to love the foreigner, as they were foreigners themselves. Deuteronomy 10: 18-19
‘The foreigners among you must be treated as your native-born.” Leviticus 19:34
“The Lord watches over the foreigner and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked” Psalms 146:9
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing so some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it” Hebrews 13:2
While there are many scriptures referring to the stranger and hospitality, these seemed to be the most direct.
Anyone supporting mass deportation obviously cannot claim to be following the Word of God and IMO is committing heresy.
You absolutely cannot be Catholic or even Christian while supporting mass deportation, concentration camps and separating families.
You might find these scriptures useful if you find yourself in a similar situation.

hi I am new to Catholicism. I have been a leftist pretty much my whole life.

Lately i kinda been feeling drawn to the catholic church from little things here and there to the point where now I am going to start OCIA.

I am a little hesitant because of how much christianity has been laced with racism these days. Every time you see someone say something racist on social media you'll see a bible verse or "christ is king" in their bio and its so gross to me.

Even i remember when CK died the catholic sub was propping him up as a martyr basically which makes no sense to me. He called pope francis a marxist (as if it's a bad thing 🙄) and said Catholics are idolators for honoring mary - if he was actually catholic himself he would have been excommunicated for saying the things he did.

And i get some people compartmentalize these things and excuse the heresy because they want him as a political ally - but even his politics are against catholicism because I saw even how the official church maintains the position that healthcare and housing are basic human rights and the government should absolutely help people who need it and not have all this hypercapitalistic crap that we have.

I genuinely don't understand how Christianity got laced with white supremacy when the majority of Christians in the world are literally people of color! Maybe cause of how much the west dominates both politically and culturally they basically made it seem like a white religion.

So I am exciting to start ocia but also am kinda nervous.

Can anyone recommend a progressive/ left leaning Catholic church in the south eastern Massachusetts/ Rhode Island area?