keepitcatholic:

tilthat:

TIL of Pope Celestine V, who did not wish to be elected pope. His only act was to pronounce that popes could abdicate, after which he abdicated.

via reddit.com

The cardinals assembled at Perugia after the death of Pope Nicholas IV in April 1292. After more than two years, a consensus had still not been reached. Pietro, well known to the cardinals as a Benedictine hermit, sent the cardinals a letter warning them that divine vengeance would fall upon them if they did not quickly elect a pope. Latino Malabranca, the aged and ill dean of the College of Cardinals cried out, “In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, I elect brother Pietro di Morrone.” The cardinals promptly ratified Malabranca’s desperate decision. When sent for, Pietro obstinately refused to accept the papacy, and even, as Petrarch says, tried to flee, until he was finally persuaded by a deputation of cardinals accompanied by the king of Naples and the pretender to the throne of Hungary.”

thedoctorsawkwardhufflepuff:

What really bothers me is that staff thinks it needs to make this site “safe for children” like have you seen this place? Get rid of the pedophiles and child porn by all means please, make it safe for teens sure, but no 9 year old should be using tumblr so I think you’re in the clear there. I don’t get it like what did staff just wake up one morning, and look at this site like

“…Hmm…”

ace-inclusionist:

ace-inclusionist:

I think the left collectively needs to re-establish and reaffirm that sex shaming is bad.

there’s no kind of sex shaming that’s acceptable. there’s no way to sex shame people that doesn’t mesh with conservative goals. sex shaming is a form of body policing, and there’s no way to extricate body policing from the authoritarianism that comes with any kind of policing. it’s all regressive as fuck and it needs to go.