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Archdiocese of Los Angeles
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Announcing FirstMass.net, the first crowd-sourced project (that I know of) showing when & where Mass was first said in each part of what would come to be known as the United States of America!
Have a look-see. Know of an early mass? Submit it! I'll review, edit, post!
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Canβt stress enough how much these dudes donβt exist in real life. Go to Mass on any given Sunday and itβs just Filipino grandmothers and Hispanic dads in polos and a white family in football jerseys and everyone is nice to each other
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It is buck wild watching Christians get Flannery O'Connor's icicle of justice and actually notice other humans exist for the first time.
It's like they're all Tracy Jordan in the 30 Rock bit where he didn't realize all women had parents until he had a daughter.
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Everyone has been telling these tools that ICE is not going after the worst of the worst but hard working families.
They didn't care.
They said we had toxic empathy.
Now, that it happened to one of their friends, they have the nerve to come here talking about, "Can you believe ICE is going after low hanging fruit?"
I JUST CANNOT!
They saw ICE hanging out at immigration hearings, Home Depot parking lots, schools-- FREAKING SCHOOLS.
They noticed nothing.
Now, they are shocked because fellow evangelical tool, who dug a pit for his own demise has fallen into the pit that he dug.
These people are truly nauseating.
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Not to mention, it's not like there's only one way to look Catholic! Churches don't have to look European. They should relate to the landscape where they are placed and reflect the culture of the people they serve.
Poorer communities can't afford to hire big time architects to build out Notre Dame clones. They have templated parishes. We get our sacraments where we can, all the same. The people inside these parishes are just as pious as anyone in a big trad cathedral & deserve our supportπ«Ά
Sorry it doesn't meet your approval. If you don't like that one Las Cruces' cathedral you'll definitely not like Diocese of Salinas' Cathedral, which is shaped like grain siloes. Cause Kansas natch.
My church is big enough for all Cathedral styles we love to see it.
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Days before the election, as polls show surging support for Medicare For All, top Democrats are now frantically trying to come up with ways to stop their party from pushing the initiative.
What is going on here?
California has its Californios, Texas its Tejanos, what about New Mexico?
Hispanos. Their language, culture and religion date back to New Spain days and was influenced by native languages too like Nahuatl and Puebloan
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanβ¦
Parish ethnic makeup has always shifted, and the Catholic West shows it: Spanish, Indigenous, mestizo, then Anglo, now Latino again. The faith stayed constant; the race didnβt. Anguish over parish ethnic makeup is really just about changing demographics in neighborhoods
Diocese of the Day is the Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Founded in 1982, this Diocese has some of the oldest Catholic history in US, with Masses being said here as far back as 1581. 139k Catholics across 47 parishes. Cathedral of Immaculate Heart of Mary, dedicated 1963!
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Hereβs the thing: If a candidate is legit anti-oligarch and anti-corruption, then nobody should care whether they call themselves βmoderate,β βcentrist,β βprogressive,β or βleft.β
Loathing oligarchy is the ultimate mainstream position in the actual center. Stop conceding βcentristβ to corporatists who are on the real fringe of public opinion. Stop allowing newspeak to cast anti-oligarchy as an extreme agenda. Itβs not. Itβs mom-and-apple-pie normie at this point. Itβs literally the normiest of normie agendas.
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This is a round about way to say Samuel is here illegally.
To be clear, I think Sam should be allowed to stay. I think Sam and the thousands of other hardworking immigrants who are paying taxes and raising families should be allowed to stay.
But sadly, Republicans don't
Update from the Seys:
βMy husband Samuel Sey entered the United States legally and has been working ever since in good faith with a lawyer to obtain permanent legal status. Our family is trying to understand what went wrong in the process. In the spirit of Romans 13, our family fully supports and respects American law and are prayerfully working to get him home through the legal process.β
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I don't understand why every single bishop in attendance hasn't apologized for what was obviously a profound error of judgment. Like, you're a Catholic bishop being used as a tool by a deeply unpopular president implicated in a pedophilia scandal and you're like, "this is fine?"
Catholic bishops apologise for 'exploited' Trump meeting bbc.in/4srU70j
