Pope Francis has died.
I know to a lot of people on the left and in the LGBTQ+ community, he wasnโt exactly seen as a holy herald of progressive values. That said I think he was more helpful to our community than we have ever really given credit.
The Catholic Church is hugely entrenched in the past. They may not ever accept gay marriage within our lifetime. But if you compare Pope Francis to any other Pope that came before him, he did more to progress the Catholic Church than anyone else ever has. He constantly spoke out saying that the church needed to accept LGBTQ+ members. He has denounced laws that criminalise homosexuality. He supported same sex civil unionsโwhich I was literally taught was evil and dangerous when I was in Catholic high school. Transgender people can be baptized and same sex couples can be blessed because of him.
He was never enough, of course. He has affirmed the teaching that gay marriage is not spiritually possible and prior to becoming pope he opposed the legalization of same sex marriage. He has said gay children should seek psychiatric care. He has also been even less accepting of transgender people than same sex couples.
But at the same time he was the most empathetic Pope to have existed in the past several hundred years. I have left the church because I no longer believe in God, but I do recognize that the Catholic Church has power over huge swaths of the world. My mother still believes in her Catholic faith and has always stood by this idea: itโs impossible to move a behemoth organisation like the Church overnight. She stays in the community because she wants it to become better. She pushes, in her own small way, a little bit every day towards what she thinks is right. In this conversation, that is the acceptance of LGBTQ+ youths. Pope Francis was helpful in moving the Church away from a stance of hate. Now I hope that whoever the cardinals choose next for pope is someone who joins her in pushing that ball forward.
HELLO new person here i'm a little late but do you think is this still valid? :)
I do art and cosplay (and writing) and spend probably way too much time thinking about c!dream and my dear friend convinced me to get tumblr so now i'm looking for mutuals who don't wanna murder me <3
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remember when 'edgy' was a red flag for someone being deliberately awful and mean and therefore they were immediately dismissed? what happened to that.
genuinely though that video healed me like i already loved and trusted him a lot but he put effort into that video, and he was objectively fair and thorough about a lot of it. theres gonna be people twisting truths into lies no matter what but i am pretty proud to be a fan of a guy with so much willingness to be kind in the face of adversity and unjust hate, a guy willing to apologize, own up, and change while making a conscious effort to make a difference and improve the lives of those around him far and wide. i really do believe in change and growth because ive seen and experienced it in my own life ! ! ! ! ! ! someone who made transphobic comments at the age of 15 in the mid 2010s can be love their trans sibling with all their being by 2023. people who held racist views at a young age can grow, apologize, and work to make amends for the way they were brought up. people who i knew previously would raise their eyebrow at anyone unlike them can become an activist and an advocate. PEOPLE CHANGE AND GROW ! ! ! you will never be who you were when you were 14, 18, 20 etc if you dont want to be lol. it makes me sad to think of all the people who assume because they grew up with free range access to the internet and carrds think that because my brother couldnt understand me being a lesbian as a 15 year old he will forever be the worst person to ever walk the earth and deserves to die for his lesbophobia when NOW ! ! ! he drives me an hour away and home just to see my gf because i asked . sorry this got really long im so passionate lol.
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Honestly I'm not sure, having revelations and stuff. Feeling a bit poetic, or depressed tbh i can't tell the difference, but I'm surviving
Thank you for asking kind anon<3
^ here is a basic introduction to both my cats
(Edit jatsi is also commonly called joksu after the finn name of snufkins dad, because it is far too perfect and i was given too much power in what i call my cats)
Streets are saying dream is finally defending himself
I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE 2020
colorblindness check! make sure you can see all of the shapes in the circles; if not, that might mean you've lost some of your ability to see color!
here to be a creature mostly, might indulge in putting my faves in a box to psychoanalyze them from time to to time
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