news
Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.
Rules:
-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --
-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --
-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --
-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today/ . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --
-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--
-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--
-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --
-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --
view the rest of the comments
So his "miracles" were posthumous and had nothing to do with the internet?
There are very few miracles that happened in the lives of saints. The point of the whole 2 miracles to canonize a saint is that once you die, people who think you went to heaven pray for your intercession. If you really are in heaven then you'd ask God to make the miracles happen. Then the idea is that if a miracle happens, it was because of the saint's intercession. But this only works if people are ONLY praying for the purported saint's intercession.
It's kinda a weird system, I've gone to some Masses hosted by an order of nuns that was founded by a nun who is now in the process of being beatified. They asked the attendees to pray for her intercession, but you could ONLY pray for her intercession, no one else's, or else we don't know who interceded.
Turning up a dial that says pseudo paganism on it and looking back to the congregation for approval
Catholics reinventing ancestral worship.
Ya know, that explains why there are so many fucking saints, and also is absolutely bullshit.
We’ve gotta switch to only counting the ones who actually performed their miracles while alive, that’ll make the numbers a lot more reasonable too
sadly removing my shrine to St. Aubergine of Babaganoushpolis
Oh I thought it was primarily "miracles" they performed in life, that later need to be "proven" to canonize them.
The miracles have nothing to do with the internet, but Carlo was a programmer, he made a website for his local church and he was unfortunely a gamer.
It seems weird to call someone the patron saint of something if their saintly status has nothing to do with that thing.
I believe it's more about the person themselves than the miracles. For example, Joseph (Jesus' legal father not the Egyptian dude) worked as a carpenter for most of his life. That's why they decided to give him the title of patron saint of workers and fatherhood. In some countries, the title is related to the place where the person lived or was born.
This is the majority of Saint miracles tbh