i love jesus (homosexually)
St. Brendan the Navigator giving Holy Communion to a mermaid
If a creature (such as a mermaid) is capable of becoming a human being I believe they must have a human soul and thus are eligible for receiving the sacrament of the Eucharist.
at my funeral, the audience will watch my favourite comfort movie and whoever checks their phone first gets disinherited.
Rules
- No real-life people (No, you can't submit Jesus or the Pope)
- Only submit a character once. You can submit as many other characters as you like
- Catholic-coded characters are allowed. If your character is not from Earth but they follow a religion that is clearly inspired/based on Catholicism, then it's ok. (ex: Church of Seiros in Fire Emblem Three Houses)
- Orthodox Christians in communion with Rome are allowed. (Ex: Copts, Greek Orthodox, etc. Click link to see the list)
- If a headcanon can be supported by the text then the character is allowed. (ex: the Familia Madrigal from Encanto). Will accept simple explanations like "Donatello makes a cross"
- Former Catholics/Lapse Catholics/non-religious characters are allowed only if being ex-Catholic is important to their characterization or story (themes about religious guilt or trauma).
- Characters from religious allegories/texts that were heavily inspired by the creator's catholic faith are allowed (ex: Lord of the Rings and Narnia)
- Biblically inspired characters are allowed (ex: Castiel from Supernatural or Aziraphale from Good Omens)
- Characters from horror movies are allowed. Demons, however, are not. Unless you want to argue that the Demon is still Catholic, then be my guest.
- Propaganda is allowed and encouraged. No holy wars tho, we gotta learn from our mistakes.
Bonus points if your explanation is funny or unhinged. I just added an option box to rant about the character and will post funny explanations.
Also, the winner gets canonized as the patron saint of Tumblr and gets their own candle 🕯️🙏
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, The Annunciation, c.1650. Oil on canvas
Something that's been on my mind for a while is how Jesus dealt more harshly with men than with women when it came to sexual sin.
He tells men to (metaphorically) gouge out one of their eyes if they can't keep from sexually objectifying women.
He sits down with prostitutes and forgives the woman caught in adultery, telling her to go sin no more.
I do not think this is because God has double standards. I think Jesus did this because society has double standards.
Historically, women have often suffered the consequences of their sexual sins, and then some. Men on the other hand have often been excused if not outright celebrated for their promiscuity. We see this even among the ancient Israelites, despite the many laws and customs they had to discourage such behaviors.
Not to mention that historically, the vast majority of women in prostitution have been victims of sex trafficking, and most want to leave prostitution if at all possible.
I think this is among the reasons that Jesus said prostitutes would enter the kingdom of heaven before many so-called religious men. Because those who hit rock-bottom are more likely to realize they need help & salvation.
When Jesus was condemned by others for eating with sinners, among them prostitutes, he said "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick." He was there to help them, to free them from their circumstances and from the penalties of sin, not to justify prostitution. He knew they were suffering.
I've been thinking more about this complicated topic and I realized that this goes back to the Old Testament.
Reuben commits adultery with one of his father's concubines, Bilhah. Interestingly, the Bible focuses on Jacob's condemnation of Reuben and not anything he might have said to Bilhah. He says "Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch!" (Genesis 49:4)
When David commits adultery with Bathsheba and kills her husband, Uriah, the Bible focuses on David's sin and condemnation. The prophet Nathan compares David to a wealthy man who had many sheep and went on to steal the lamb of a poor man for food. The focus is on David feeling conviction for what he's done and begging for forgiveness in his remorse. This is the subject of Psalm 51. Aside from describing her part in the act of adultery, the Bible doesn't really focus on condemning Bathsheba.
That's not to say that women who commit adultery aren't equally as guilty as men who do the same. But this was a time and culture where men's promiscuity was more tolerated than that of women's (and the same could probably be said about today). This was also a time when married men sleeping with unmarried women was not considered an act of adultery against their own wives, even though it clearly should have been.
Something a lot of people point out in the story of Jesus forgiving the woman caught in adultery is that those who brought her out to be stoned to death failed to bring out the man who was complicit. They were caught in the very act and yet the people turned a blind eye to the man who was equally responsible. Even though scripture clearly shows God condemning men for such things. We don't know what Jesus's words to the man would have been. Perhaps he would have told him the same thing he told the women he forgave and told to turn from sin.
Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows- a Catholic chapel carved out of the ice underground near the Belgrano II base and research station. one of eight Antarctic churches, used by Argentinian researchers year round ❄️💒
You're trans? Like jesus?
yeah just like jesus
i'm not like other girls. i don't die when i'm killed
Mormons and JWs aren't Christian the same way the Messianic Jews aren't Jewish.
For a decade, a beekeeper near Athens, has kept a tradition: every spring, he slips icons of Christ, the Holy Virgin and different saints in his beehives, in order to bless his bees and his yearly honey production. And every year, the very same mysterious phenomenon occurs: bees make their honeycomb cells around the pious images, meticulously avoiding covering them.











