#folk practitioner

Do we think minions receive the grace of God or are they like the veggietales and doomed to hell because they can’t have a special human saving relationship with Christ

Not reblogging or screenshotting it bc they’re an anti-Catholic blog and I wanna respect that/not incur that on my page but I just saw someone refer to the saints as Catholicism’s fucked up little mascots and like

The Church has always understood that you cannot get to the resurrection without going under.

We have entered a millennium in which we must give spiritual, cultural, legal, political and economic expression to the civilization of love. May the enormity of the suffering we witness help us grasp the radical nature of this call.

Where there were walls of separation, Christ broke them down. There is no love of God without love of neighbor, and there is no neighbor if I do not draw near. To pause, to be moved, to bend down, to weep before another’s pain — as Jesus did — means entering into the dynamic of love, the very movement in which God has revealed himself.