Rachael Elmy

I’ll probably never get to pet a giant squid

"By you, Most Holy Lord, and by the whole celestial court, and by me, too, your little one, cursed be those who by their bad example disrupt and destroy what you have built up." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

"What is worst of all is using God and religion to bolster up our own greed, our own attachment to property, and putting God and country on an equality (1961)." #DorothyDay #PrayForAmerica

This is incredibly important

A white bunny is peering into a large mug with a bunny face design. Its oversized pink ears stick out.

“We’re such a bad shape for swallowing whole.”
- Clint’s reptiles

Context: I am a tour guide at a former Roman fortress and i show people some ancient column bases. There’s a big hole in one of them and this kid reached in the hole and ate the bits of sand inside

Sometimes I think about the kid who ate some Roman concrete

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

i consider my pug to be 38% cat, so if this applies to all pugs, the kitty resistance has grown much hungrier

A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.

"Selfishness is stupid." #PopeFrancis #Hope

In Magna Carta Address, Pope Leo Calls for a Church That Washes Feet, Not Wields Power “Let us dream of a Church that heals, not judges,” Pope Leo pleads in a sweeping homily that laid out the blueprint for his papacy.

In what may be the defining homily of his pontificate, Pope Leo made clear today the Church he wants to lead — one grounded in radical humility, unity, and service to humanity.

@alyssaelmy.bsky.social

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Go Leo, Goo!

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Tiger bread

Adrian Monk.

Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.

Pencil sketches of a tiny insect-like dragon.

Pencil sketches of a tiny fluffy dragon.

Pencil sketches of a dragon with long serpentine neck and tail.

Pencil sketches of an aquatic dragon with a coral reef growing on its back.

Four pages of dragon sketches.

Dress for the job you want (Dracula); not the job you have (Office Manager at a Credit Union).

Pope Leo: Usury ‘corrupts the human heart’ and enslaves the poor - Vatican News Pope Leo XIV condemns usury as a grave sin that enslaves the poor and corrupts the human heart, he calls for a renewed commitment to justice and mercy ...

“How far from God,” the Pope exclaimed, “is the attitude of those who crush people until they become slaves! Usury is not merely an accounting issue—it is a grave sin that can destroy families, consume the mind and heart, and even lead people to despair or suicide”

The image is a comic strip featuring a meeting about "anti-homeless architecture." In the first panel, a person at the head of a table asks for ideas. The second panel shows three people offering suggestions. Two of them suggest "armrests on benches" and "spikes everywhere," while the third person suggests "houses?" In the third panel, the person who suggested "houses" is shown being thrown out of a window

In John 6:15, Jesus miraculously feeds 5,000 people and the crowd's so impressed they try to seize Jesus and make him their "king," by force.

But Jesus "withdrew again to a mountain by himself" to avoid their attempt, bc he was not about earthly power.

Jesus = "No Kings."

He did not find America. He did not discover America. He did not build America

End of story

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Submitted my dissertation. Clap for me.