Catholic Poems - Poems about Catholic

The slowly imploding borders of an ancient empire, lights flickering in a vast array of circuitry, a battered starship adrift in the inky void- our Church. Yet, though the titaness is harried, old, and worn down, shrinking, ridiculed, belittled, and...Read the rest...

In anger, I scream at the wall. In pain, onto my pillow I fall. I take it out on my bed, punching, my face turns red. I grab my razor out of despair, "nobody will see if I make the...Read the rest...

How shall it be that at His death His breath Sings a solemn anthem on repeat So sweet, As if He is not met with strife In life. The truth lies not in nailing knife, He knows no desperation. His death is our...Read the rest...

Most radiant host, angelic glory be Within thy blesséd grace, Portal of Faith. In simple form You came, yet still through thee We see theophony, through which God saith, ¨Dear child mine, most valiant flesh now is thine. Hereby thy...Read the rest...

Push me in the door once more. Scrub me for the alter. Return me to the sacraments, the rituals, the wafer and wine. Place me, dazzled among votive candles, that are such fat bones for the weak flesh. To each Holy Sister, a token, a...Read the rest...

My brother went to limbo Stillborn and unbaptized Faultless but Original Sin Status unknown A soul in liminal space Lost between heaven and hell Damnation spared Salvation denied Consigned by papal decree Resigned to the Mercy of God Wrenched, a mother's...Read the rest...

Density of orchestral tones, Uilleann pipes, Stride along tense and undulant waves, Ripping the past into view. Heat lightening licks my peripheral, With each droplet of sweat from my forehead, As movies march on behind in speaker and mind. Tales of the...Read the rest...

A forever lasting lullaby, Sung by weeping angels. I must atone my sins, Alone. ...Read the rest...

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The Catholic Church has a Pope because the papacy was instituted by our Lord Father Christ (Jesus) The Pope is the visible head of the Church and has supreme authority to preserve doctrine To teach To sanctify The Pope...Read the rest...

A Catholic and Agnostic In a relationship together... Deep and wide is the valley of questions that fills my mind It is much worse at night... without a place to hide, I am lost. I have never been lost...Read the rest...

I have a Christian Friend, Regina She had never uttered '': Not for all the tea in Big China, As though it could give her Angina; For life ban her from Holy Sinai... Fears picked from Born - Again...Read the rest...

Many would have for it killed And blood of The Guiltless spilled, True Catholics to surprise, For it fight and let voice rise! An eye catching Rich Terrain That knows how to welcome rain; Enough to envy arouse Against its...Read the rest...

++ The Gathered Women, a short poem++ A Magnificence captures Us Unexpectedly We run off To hunt our mantillas From long ago youth To address And dress our heads In all felt humility ————————————————————— (c) sally young eslinger 2/21/22 **a mantilla is...Read the rest...

She was Catholic, I a Baptist By Franklin Price Sunday 02/06/2022 She was Catholic, I a Baptist As Christians not so far apart We both believe Christ died for us That same belief's in both our hearts How we got to that...Read the rest...