PSA: a Mass can be very reverent while being celebrated in the vernacular, versus populum. Don't let radtrad rethoric or unfortunate experiences (more frequent in some geographies, sadly) tell you otherwise

"If images are licit why didn't the Apostles make portraits of Jesus" my friend, the Apostles were fishermen and tax collectors, not internet influencers with an iPhone camera ready to go

O que é que se passa com tanto amor entre Portugal e Espanha? Nunca falámos mal uns dos outros? Nunca nos odiámos? Estou a ver é que nunca abriram um livro de História 😂

Guys, stop hating on the Pope, he just went to visit an ordinary parish where (as per the rules allow) there are altar girls. What did you want him to do?

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I'm this old

“Y no saben por qué”

100% agree. Also, this picture (which has always made me feel funny feelings ever since I first set eyes on it)

4chan: today's news three years ago.

A priest says what hearing fifty years of confessions taught him:

Gabriel Sara, oncólogo: «La eutanasia se convertirá en el tratamiento de los pobres» abc.es/sociedad/gabri… via @ABC_Sociedad

No strong opinion on the prudence here, but I admittedly do believe every Pope in the 20th century was a saint, and that this was the generosity of God to accompany us through a time of profound humiliation, martyrdom, and evil.

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, so I wish you all a happy Lent, Holy Week and especially Triduum. See you on Easter!