Jay Hulme
Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
- WAKE UP GIRLIES, CALVIN ROBINSON HAS BEEN KICKED OUT OF ANOTHER CHURCH
- Current Calvin Robinson church history: Church of England (???-2022) Free Church of England (2022-2023) Nordic Catholic Church (2023-2024) Anglican Catholic Church (2024-2025) Reformed Episcopal Church (2025-2025) (licence revoked after approximately two days of membership)
- With this breaking news that Calvin Robinson has been kicked out of the Reformed Episcopal Church after approximately 48 hours, I have updated the meme.
- The pride flag on our church sign has been vandalised and ripped off five times in the last seven days and I'm just... So tired.
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View full threadYeah, I'm restricting replies now because this is driving me crazy. Y'all need to stop.
- We're down to our last replacement pride flag (which means we've been through around 400 over the last three or four years), so I've just ordered another £60 worth. If you wanna help defray the cost of constantly fixing it, you can donate to our little church here: stnicholasleicester.com/donate
- We've all been loving the conclave drama, but one of my favourite bits of Catholic Lore is how they ended up locking a load of Cardinals in a room for days until they've picked a Pope. People say it's to prevent external lobbying and to help them hear the holy spirit but that's not the whole story.
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View full threadIn September 1971, two years and nine months after the former Pope had died, and over a year after they'd been locked up by annoyed townsfolk, the Cardinals selected a new Pope. The problem was, the guy they chose was not even a priest and was, at that moment, on a crusade, in Acre.
- It took him five months to reach Viterbo, and another month for him, and the Cardinals, to reach Rome, where he was, in short order, ordained, consecrated a Bishop,and then crowned Pope.
- Finally, after over a year of deadlock the Prefect of the town locked the Cardinals in the Popes palace, telling them to get on with it, and pick a Pope. Then, when being simply locked up didn't work, the townsfolk took off the roof, and refused to send the Cardinals anything but bread and water.
- Amazingly, locking the Cardinals up, taking the roof off the building, and only letting them eat bread and water didn't end the saga A full year passed Finally some European monarchs got involved, and under pressure the Cardinals voted to allow a group of just 6 Cardinals to elect a Pope instead
- In 1268 Pope Clement IV died. Back then the Cardinals met up in whatever city the Pope died in, and voted once a day before just going about their business. So the Cardinals met in Viterbo and got to voting. But they simply could not pick a Pope.
- When I say they couldn't pick a Pope, I mean it took MONTHS. The Cardinals stopped meeting daily, only meeting on occasion. Even they were sick of the deadlock. After a year of conclave passed, the people of the town were starting to get a bit pissed off with all of this.
