r/LeftCatholicism

I was raised (American) Anglican and baptized in the Anglican Church. I've been drawn to Catholicism for a long time and have finally found a parish that my husband and I are visiting.

However, I'm fearful of moving forward with anything because I had an abortion 3 years ago. I had cancer and felt I had no choice. I learned later that that was very much not true, in any sense; in my specific case it literally just would have pushed back my treatment schedule by a couple months to protect the baby. I had just gotten married too, a couple weeks before I found out about the cancer and the baby. So it was a stressful time and I'll be honest, while I feel guilty to the extreme I don't quite fully blame myself. Something to discuss with our pastor.

Anyway, my baby could be alive right now and I feel (though this might be selfish) that it's worth mentioning that I would be healthier as well, especially mentally. I mourn my baby every day. I had a natural miscarriage earlier this year too, which stirred everything up even more.

I'm just worried that I won't be accepted and that it would be better to stay away. I'm embarrassed to discuss it. My own family doesn't even know about it, because I'm so afraid of how they might look at me. Basically, I'm fearful that I am going to be alienated forever. Does anyone have any insight?

Because when you get a fixation…
I’ve just finished Luis Bunuel’s Él and was impressed with the actress Delia Garces. She starred in a film from 1946 about Saint Rosa de Lima and now I’m desperate to find it. Anyone able to find it for purchase or streaming?

Curious because leftism and Catholicism are traditionally opposed on this matter

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(To start, let me say I'm a cradle Catholic but left the Church a bit ago. I kind of orbit now. I am also not a "Left" Catholic but certainly not a Right-wing one either. I'm pretty center.)

Hello all, I was watching a video from a semi-notable far-right Catholic streamer (won't say which but if you want to know you can DM) and he said that the seminarians in the US were all:

-Traditional

-Orthodox

-Knowledgeable on the "JQ" (Jewish Question)

Furthermore, I think its semi-obvious even from my perspective how much of the Gen-Z growth of the Church is from right-wing men.

With all of these considerations, are you all worried? Or not? How come?

It’s very interesting to me that the same people who for years ridiculed transgender people for identifying as the gender opposite to the one they were born as are now identifying as Catholic when they are not (SSPX obviously). I find myself torn because I respect trans people’s pronouns because I have little reason to disrespect people unnecessarily. Am I not being consistent if I don’t call a member of SSPX a Catholic when they clearly aren’t simply because they identify as such?
I’m definitely going to have to mull this one over, would appreciate hearing your thoughts.

I just learned about the existence of this forum and what the people who are partaking in it actually mean by leftism.

I'm assuming members agree with the rules here and in them I saw that corporatism was listed as one of the things being opposed by the moderation, and I'm assuming the members too to a varying degree.

I don't exactly see what it has to do with the rest, aside from being the economical stance of Mussolini's fascism. On the contrary, it's a relatively centrist position and what seems to me that it aligns the most with the Social Doctrine of the Church, hence why I'm not sure why you oppose it and what exactly you believe to be the more fitting economic system.

The Vatican warned the faithful who go to the society’s Masses to stop, declaring “those who adhere formally” to the society are considered themselves schismatic and excommunicated. It declared SSPX priests to be schismatic, and therefore excommunicated, and invalidated the sacraments of confession and marriage that they administer.

I have seen this so many times I just got off tiktok before i saw a reel of saying you can't be racist and Christian and I was like ok and the comments were agreeing with the video but one comment which had the Vatican flag on it said No and I went to the person profile and saw some idk incel I don't even know what to even call it it actually looks like a bot account. But my main point is if you actually want to join the religion actually try to learn about it and not just pose as one and be a bad person.

I (21M) recall that at the age of 13, during my first traditionalist " for adults" catechism class, the priest taught us that "no one loves what they do not know," and that since God had created each of us solely to "know Him, love Him, and serve Him," knowing God was our duty and our salvation.

God, of course, reveals Himself as perfectly as is possible for the human intellect of a mere layperson through the Catechism of Saint Pius X, a compendium of doctrine published in 1912.

Over the course of the year, we would learn—always and exclusively through the texts the priest read to us—who God is.

We wouldn't even learn, on the other hand, the names of those who sat beside us throughout the year. The priest only wanted to speak with us once, and in private. On that occasion, his only concern for myself consisted in that I — as a male — was wearing a ring with a gemstone (which, of course, is appropriate only for ladies and dignitaires) and that I still served as an altar boy occasionaly at a nearby “Novus Ordo” parish that my familly attended.

There was no communal activity to experience other than listening, with an ever-growing passivity (referred to as "docility"), to whatever came out of the sacred mouth of our good shepherd—whether it was doctrine from dusty manuals or a hastily murmured Latin liturgy.

Unsurprisingly, not even half of those who began the catechism classes actually finished them, leaving only those who still needed to receive a sacrament of Christian initiation.

The apostle Saint John, in his first letter to one of the earliest Christian communities, warns that "whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love" (1 John 4:8).

He defines, by writing so, what is to fail to know God. But how, then, can we know Him? The apostle himself explains right after:

"This is how we know that we are in Him and He in us: if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us."

No one, the apostle teaches, has ever seen God (John 1:18 & 1 John 4:12). He can only be known through love for one's neighbor, who is the figure of Christ before us.

In catechism, I learned to "know, love, and serve God," whom, according to the Gospel, "no one has ever seen."

Later on, life taught me the very same thing the apostle had already proclaimed two thousand years ago:

"Whoever does not love their brother, whom they can see, is incapable of loving God, whom they cannot see."

Only long after catechism and after leaving behind almost everything I heard from that priest did I begin to learn what it means to know, love, and serve this other, who—always, and whoever they may be—is the true Christ, the Son of God.

Please post all news and views regarding SSPX here.

Update: per the Dicastery of the Doctrine of the Faith:

- All SSPX bishops have been excommunicated

- All priests affiliated with the SSPX are also excommunicated

- Any lay persons who "formally adhere" to the SSPX will be excommunicated

- Lay persons are warned against participating in any events associated with the SSPX

To clarify, "formal adherence" to the schism does not many anyone who attends an SSPX service is excommunicated. It requires a deliberate and conscious act of embracing the schism.

For example, the excommunication of the priests of SSPX means that it's priests can no longer validly perform marriages or confessions. Intentionally seeking out an SSPX priest to receive these sacraments is a schismatic act. Additionally, consciously choosing to receive illicit sacraments from the SSPX when any other option is available is a deliberate act of breaking communion and will incur excommunication.

Additionally, any excommunicated priest is permitted to return to the church, provided the following conditions are met:

• Disaffiliation with the SSPX
• Accept the legitimacy of Vatican II and the New Mass
• Formally request communion from the bishop or ordinary with jurisdiction
• Write a handwritten letter addressed to the Pope requesting the lifting of the excommunication
• Attach to the letter addressed to the Pope and formal declaration of faith accepting the teachings of the council and the validity of ths New Mass

I'd like to be more in community with y'all, I'm a way that's just not possible on a reddit forum. Anyone know a place?

Hey everyone,

What are all of your thoughts about the end times? I know Jesus says in the Olivet Discourse (Mark 13:23 I think) that all these things (meaning all the things he said about the end of the world) will occur before his generation passes away.

Of course, nothing happened. So what does one do with that information? Do you just acknowledge that Jesus was wrong? Therefore, making all of the eschatology wrong?

Curious what you all think.