2,388 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 7:18 PM UTC
Posted by /u/HumbleRestaurant790
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2,388 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 7:18 PM UTC
Posted by /u/HumbleRestaurant790
571 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 2:22 PM UTC
Posted by /u/HumbleRestaurant790
152 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 7:32 PM UTC
Posted by /u/CautiousMagazine3591
115 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 10:50 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Economy_Mobile_6160
My wife just said “Protestants want to be Sola Scriptura, but they can’t even be Whola Scriptura” And I cackled.
114 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 12:31 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Sea_Offer_5854
My cat just died. I think he got hit by a car because he had so much blood coming out of his mouth. I can't stop crying. He came and took his last breath right outside my door.
54 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC
Posted by /u/HonkyTonkBluesYEAH
For books I know The Bible and The Lord of the Rings (Dostoevsky on the other hand is Orthodox). For films I am not sure. I know The Passion of the Christ but Mel Gibson is kind of outside the Church, even if he likes old Catholicism.
52 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 11:47 AM UTC
Posted by /u/firenance
WWYD? I feel like the whole situation is going to be difficult and harm either my marriage or friendship. Prob more relationship question but related to our kid’s sacraments. Next baby is due in a few months. Wife suggested a couple friend to be godparents. At first I said let’s…
46 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 5:03 AM UTC
Posted by /u/marketrent
39 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 3:34 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Imperator-ad-plagam
33 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 12:53 AM UTC
Posted by /u/zjordyyy
I was baptized Catholic as a baby, but after my family stopped practicing I spent the next 14 years as an agnostic. Everything changed in 2024 when I sat beside my uncle as he slowly died of cancer. He wasn't afraid he knew he was going home to Christ. That moment started a jour…
29 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 12:59 AM UTC
Posted by /u/GingerPrincess666
I know our Church is the largest and greatest out of all Christian churches, but I'm still scared for its future. I attend a parish close to home and it's only older believers in attendance... Will the coming youth still frequent the Catholic Church as often as God expects them…
23 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 7:38 PM UTC
Posted by /u/zilok727
He was born in 19th-century China into a Christian family. A respected physician with a comfortable life, he treated the poor free of charge. By all appearances, he lived an exemplary life. However, a stomach illness led him to use opium, which was a common medical treatment at…
21 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC
Posted by /u/zovemsefran
From the Catechism of Saint Pius X (I translated from Italian, so in English it could be not word by word accurate, but the meaning is that:"Anyone who has culpably omitted to confess a mortal sin must disclose the omitted sin to the confessor, state in how many confessions they…
17 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 10:55 PM UTC
Posted by /u/TriticumAes
Like it is my understanding that the December 25th Christmas date came from the early Church fathers placing Jesus’s conception and death date as the same date on March 25th. So if that is the case why is one moveable and one fixed instead of having both fixed or both moveable?
17 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 12:22 PM UTC
Posted by /u/-SLVMPFVCK-
I'm going back to confession today after 6 months of avoiding it and missing Mass a good number of times because of work giving me crazy hours, my transportation was unavailable, severe depression wracked my brain much worse than before, and i've been feeling as though i've fall…
15 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 4:01 AM UTC
Posted by /u/BackroomsCitizen
"Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you." - Matthew 5:42 I live in a big city where panhandlers are at every corner and not all of them are homeless. Some even admit that they ask because people will give, and they stand in front of church…
15 upvotes
Jul 25, 2026, 8:20 PM UTC
Posted by /u/mind-killer-fear
This week marked 80 years since the King David Hotel bombing in Jerusalem. On July 22, 1946, members of the Irgun planted explosives beneath the hotel’s south wing, which housed the British Mandatory government’s Secretariat and military headquarters. Ninety-one people were kill…