Maria Oswalt

I found a blueberry hat for her this week :)

didn't expect this to blow up! hello to all the pro- and anti-natalists in my comments 👋 fwiw I'm pretty neutral about it all. my answer to the question "how many kids do you want?" has always been "however many God wills" — and so far, I've got one! an immeasurable blessing.

currently sitting at a coffee shop, overhearing a table of 15-year-old girls debating the ideal number of kids to have lol “with just one, it gets lonely. two, and they'll end up hating each other. with three, one always gets left out. four...is good."

@CatholicCharm that's the dream

“5 and they start a garage band”

@75opinionated well, remember that this was said by a teenage girl lol

@RehumanizeMaria Why would 2 hate each other?

@DestroyGQP21 no human is worthless!

@RehumanizeMaria 4 is nice until you realize you have to actively raise each by giving them attention, education, morals, etc. Otherwise you end up with worthless humans roaming the earth.

also, as one of four kids, I agree that four is a good number!

great news for the pronatalists I suppose

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renaissance festival shenanigans for mother's day 🍓🌌⚔️

Perhaps nobody captured the quiet bond between mothers and their children as well as Mary Cassatt.

Big news from the Fifth Circuit, putting a pause on the pandemic-era expansion of mifepristone which allowed for mail-order abortion pills across the U.S.

The Catholic Church has consistently taught that each human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, is sacred and deserves to be protected. Indeed, the right to life is the very foundation of every other human right. For this reason, only when a society safeguards the sanctity of human life will it flourish and prosper.

It’s tendentious to debate just war theory after blowing up a girls’ school over nonexistent nukes.

It never ceases to amaze me that certain Catholics who will defend—and say—the nastiest comments about Pope Leo will lose their minds and freak out at even the mildest criticism of Donald Trump. If nothing else, it reveals their actual religion.

Bombing people is a matter of morality

a lot of whataboutism going on about Pope Leo lately, so here's a little FAQ for anyone who hasn't been paying attention: Q: "Where was Pope Leo when Christians were being persecuted in Nicaragua?" A: Meeting with the exiled Nicaraguan church leaders: ncregister.com/cna/pope-leo-x… Q: "Where was Pope Leo when Christians were slaughtered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?" A: Loudly condemning the massacre: foxnews.com/world/pope-leo… Q: "What has Pope Leo said about the violence of abortion?" A: "We categorically reject any practice that denies or exploits the origin of life and its development. Among these is abortion, which cuts short a growing life and refuses to welcome the gift of life." vatican.va/content/leo-xi… Q: "What has Pope Leo done about the legalization of assisted suicide?" A: He has met with political leaders and urged them to "respect the sacredness of life from the very beginning to the very end": apnews.com/article/pope-i… The Holy Father has been consistent in his calls for nonviolence. His condemnation of the war in Iran is not political.