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1,061 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC
Posted by /u/Arthur-reborn
My dad came from a poor family and turned 18 right at the height of the Vietnam era drafts. He knew he was most likely going to be drafted and there wasn't much he could do about it. So him and his brother both signed onto the Navy before he could get a draft notice. He ended up…
426 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 9:53 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Various_Implement_92
I'm from New England and on a trip to Minneapolis I visited the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which is terrific. That got me thinking: Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit are all institutes of art, unlike the major art museums in East Coast cities like New York, Boston and Philadel…
392 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 10:09 AM UTC
Posted by /u/ExternalBoysenberry
I get that we don't and can't have, like, a NYT "what percent Nazi are you?" needle. I'm also familiar with (and sympathetic to) that famous quote I'll paraphrase as: the term for the innumerable ordinary Germans who quietly loathed Hitler but out of fear or convenience went alo…
228 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Beautiful_Age7753
During the White House correspondents dinner, Trump directly stated he would be running for a “fourth” term. Due to this being unconstitutional via the 22nd amendment, and states running their own elections, could states simply not put his name on ballots come election day? We k…
161 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 6:44 AM UTC
Posted by /u/i_like_tempeh
My 7yo daughter left a letter by the cross in our prayer corner. She wrote: "Dear Jesus, Holy Mass is always so boring... is there another way to praise and worship you?" How would you handle this? Also, she asked Jesus himself, should I even react at all?
157 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 8:11 PM UTC
Posted by /u/yellowbai
Caesar was a political gambler no doubt but he always seemed to have a grasp on reality. He was charming he had social skills. He was at pains to seduce everyone he met with his charm. Cicero went through phases of admiring him and being terrified of him. Then the year before he…
120 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 2:44 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Britto___Augustus
I am a convert from a protestant background. I grew up going to a CSI (Church of South India) church, which was a mix of presbyterian, methodist, and various other reformed churches. After the sunday service we used to always have a tea fellowship, getting to interact and social…
105 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 12:26 PM UTC
Posted by /u/-Razen-
The most notorious and known tanks of Germany are almost all using flat armour. The Tiger I, which rolled down the production lines in 1942, had a famously box-like appearance. Against smaller calibers, it's undoubtedly effective. But as soon as far more potent calibers appeared…
93 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Such-Classroom-4271
Im a recent convert to catholocism and i just wanted to come here to report that last night i started the liturgy of the hours, and i prayed to God to take my drugs away or to do whatever He had to do to help me stop taking 7oh.... i used to be a fentanyl addict and got duped in…
69 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 11:14 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Known-Delay1371
I’ve seen this claim in many places, from Internet forums to my very own family and I’ve never been able to figure out if it’s true or not. It’s the kind of thing that sounds just real enough to make you wonder but just vague enough to leave you with no idea where to start when…
67 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC
Posted by /u/expandablebutthole
Today I attended my first Divine Liturgy and overall it was a BEATIFUL experience. As someone discerning conversion from Catholicism to Orthodoxy i genuinely felt spiritually at peace, it was an Orthodox Church in America parish so everything was in English which made it much ea…
66 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 11:57 AM UTC
Posted by /u/minisculebarber
In "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow write We’d never have guessed, for instance, that slavery was most likely abolished multiple times in history in multiple places However, they do not go into the claim nor do they provide sources. I do remember that…
62 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC
Posted by /u/contortionsinblue
Hi, 30 yr old dude here - really do not mean to be confrontational with this post. I was raised areligious and really was only brought to born again churches when I was younger, in high school. After both of my parents died and my grandparents, I feel something is pulling me to…
62 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 9:21 PM UTC
Posted by /u/FantasticContact5301
I am aware, of course, that the modern idea of “ninja” is not historically accurate. There were spies and scouts and even assassins, but the idea of the ninja is just the result of folklore over many years. I am also aware that kabuki theater portrays ninja characters in all bla…
62 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Tough_Story_1024
How did the St. Thomas Christian Community survive while communities in China and some other parts of Asia disappeared?
55 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…
53 upvotes
Jul 26, 2026, 3:06 PM UTC
Posted by /u/Beautiful-Finding-82
Today's gospel is quite the bomb-dropper. Angels gathering people and tossing them into hell yet no discussion on this whatsoever? Are we just going to keep pretending it's not serious business? Neither the mass homily nor my booklet that has the daily mass/commentary ever menti…