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This is how you treat the successor of St. Peter. I’m reminded of the disgraceful treatment our late Pope Francis received in the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. The difference is staggering.

Você sabe que "fascismo" e "sociedade de consumo" são coisas incompatíveis, né? O totalitarismo fascista é anti-liberal - isso é básico.

Materialmente falando, a história do Brasil começa quando o rei lavrador e poeta Dom Dinis I de Portugal manda plantar o Pinhal de Leiria, que seria mais tarde usado para construir a frota portuguesa. Fernando Pessoa fala sobre isso.

every Iranian embassy has its own personality and different posting patterns now The embassy of Sweden is posting woke pronounces shit while the south African embassy is praising hitler

@fde_enthusiast7 @Empty_America @UfoHitch "most of the world’s devout Catholics hail from the US" What an absurd statement.

@Empty_America @UfoHitch Because the Catholic Chruch should know which side its bread is buttered on. Most of their funding comes from the US, and tbh most of the world’s devout Catholics hail from the US too

Why would any sane person expect the leader of the Global Church to cater to the preferences of American Nationalists? What is the logic chain that leads you to have that expectation?

@MScarince Oh, I didn't know about this one

Featuring a surprise cameo from one of my favorite historical figures:

Master of the Hours of Henry II

I feel compelled to return to this argument once more to dispel what I believe is a significant myth regarding Pope Leo XIV. Compared with all other 12 popes of the post-1870 era, beginning with his namesake Leo XIII, the current Pope is far from a political or even religious 'left-wing extremist'. If you do not believe me, believe their written records. Benedict XV, the pope who denounced Socialism as 'the enemy of the Church', also instituted the International Catholic Day for Migrants and Refugees, consistently condemned the First World War from the moment of his election, and coined the famous definition of WWI as 'the useless slaughter' in his international exhortation to all belligerent sides of 1st August 1917. Pius X, recognised as the foremost anti-modernist and intransigent conservative among modern popes, condemned Italy's exploitation of religion in the war against Turkey, and wrote the encyclical Lacrimabili Statu denouncing the violent mistreatment of South American indigenous populations by their governments. Pius XI, a deeply underrated figure, whilst bitterly opposing communism and socialism, openly attacked Nazi racial ideology in Mit Brennender Sorge , and at his personal request the Congregation for Seminaries and Universities issued on 13th April 1938 the Syllabus against Racism , distributed to Catholic schools worldwide, the timing of which, falling precisely during Hitler's state visit to Rome, was hardly accidental. He also opposed rearmament and war consistently. All this notwithstanding the fact that Pius XI personally harboured traditional Catholic prejudices and had initially sought an accommodation with Hitler upon his coming to power in 1933. Pius XII remains perhaps the most problematic of recent popes, owing to his failure to condemn Nazism and the Holocaust with sufficient strength and clarity — a failing serious enough to halt and restart his canonisation process on several occasions. And yet even he consistently condemned war and the concept of armed aggression. And one need hardly dwell on John XXIII ; Mater et Magistra on workers' rights and social justice, Pacem in Terris on the repudiation of war, or on John Paul II. Even Paul VI, a reserved, traditional and extraordinarily cautious figure, penned "Populorum Progressio", acknowledging the right of poor nations to development and emancipation, and explicitly condemning the concept of private property as an unconditional right when others lack bare necessities. So there is nothing extreme in what Leo XIV has said over the past few days. It is, once again, the continuation of Catholic doctrine as it has evolved over the past two centuries. What has changed is not the Church. It is the world around it that has shifted so far in one direction that the mere desire for peace, the condemnation of violence and abuse, and the refusal to allow religion to be exploited for political ends are now labelled 'dangerous extremism'.

Bro unironically worships tung tung tung sahur lmao

“120 Cardinals elected Pope Leo. 77 million American citizens elected Donald Trump. We aren’t the same”

The government should implant in everyone’s skulls a miniature bomb that goes off when the person says “hope this helps” aloud or through typing

@matheuszome @ivanildoiii Então esqueça os Estados Unidos. Lá tem essa mesma conversa de falta de representatividade por parte dos estados mais populosos.

Como dizia Everardo Backheuser, federalismo só funciona em países cujas UFs sejam "equipotentes". Basta ver como são as UFs dos EUA, Suíça, etc. Um Amazonas e um Sergipe lado a lado não podem virar federação. Para ser uma federação, o Brasil teria que redesenhar inteiramente seu mapa político, com UFs equipotentes - isso inclui dividir algumas (Guanabara pode entrar aí) e juntar outras (o Nordeste mesmo tem que ser totalmente redesenhado, com várias fusões e agregações). (Backheuser faz umas propostas interessantes em "Problemas do Brasil", mas isso 90 anos atrás.)

Eu acho difícil ter qualquer federalismo enquanto Norte e Nordeste mandarem a maioria dos senadores mesmo morando muito menos gente por lá. O Sudeste concentra 44% da população e manda 12 senadores de 81. A desproporção também ocorre no número de deputados. A pior parte é que a correção disso jamais vai passar no Congresso. Por que destruiriam o sistema que os beneficia? Só existe uma solução. Tem que dividir SP em três estados. Fazer a Guanabara voltar a ter três senadores. Enfim, dá pra fazer ocorrer. Nem que seja temporariamente só pra isso.

Creatures from Brazilian mythology - Headless Mule (but male) - Boitata

"Jesus wouldn't blame us"

Bandeira de Israel kkkkk Tanka o protestantismo Br?

“The Catholic Church never did anything for Venezuela, Trump did.”

@jabaliestofado @GabSotomaior PUTA QUE PARIU, EU ENCONTREI.

Newman University Church, located in Dublin, Ireland. Consecrated in 1856.

Hilma af Klint, 1915-1917

A rare instance of appreciating an artist, Gottfried Kumpf (1920-2022) for his name as much as his work. In his lifetime, Kumpf's paintings were considered naive but since his death, they are becoming increasingly desirable.