Should Catholics Get Tattooed?

[little2add]

ON CLEANLINESS:

“Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it. Uncleanliness, which breeds disease and death, is not only a self-destructive but highly immoral habit.”

tattoos are an abomination

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

my local bishop told me better to not but if you really have to it is only a very minor sin.

[WhiteLily]

No, because I don't want to account to our Lord my reasoning for getting a tattoo.   I would rather find other ways to express myself in an approprate way through art - sketching, taking pictures, writing, etc. 

Edited September 18, 2016 by WhiteLily