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Algorithms don't know better, but I'm getting some nasty posts about my faith in the discovery feed. The left is no better than the right. The Right wants to incapsulate and control my faith for its own power, the Left just wants to mock it for cheap karma points.
April 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Algorithms don't know better, but I'm getting some nasty posts about my faith in the discovery feed. The left is no better than the right. The Right wants to incapsulate and control my faith for its own power, the Left just wants to mock it for cheap karma points.
"Afterwards, I thought: Who does that? What world leader thanks someone for a challenging conversation? For me, that small gesture says a great deal about Pope Francis’s humility, openness and freedom, as well his willingness to listen and learn...."
For me, a small gesture in this brief video shows what kind of person Pope Francis was. Story below.
April 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Afterwards, I thought: Who does that? What world leader thanks someone for a challenging conversation? For me, that small gesture says a great deal about Pope Francis’s humility, openness and freedom, as well his willingness to listen and learn...."
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Wealthy, often (mostly) evil people have always existed but unlike noble families in the Renaissance patronising artists or robber barons in the Gilded Age funding medical research, libraries & universities, today’s oligarchs have little to none lasting positive cultural or philanthropic legacy
April 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Wealthy, often (mostly) evil people have always existed but unlike noble families in the Renaissance patronising artists or robber barons in the Gilded Age funding medical research, libraries & universities, today’s oligarchs have little to none lasting positive cultural or philanthropic legacy
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We don't recover. We learn to hide, often behind substance use and abuse.
March 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We don't recover. We learn to hide, often behind substance use and abuse.
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diagnosis of autism as woman who does not meet the stereotypes, commentary like this added to my sense of maybe being a fraud. But it is on a societal level, this will impact people's support and acceptance of ND people, when there is still a fight for just a basic level of understanding
March 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
diagnosis of autism as woman who does not meet the stereotypes, commentary like this added to my sense of maybe being a fraud. But it is on a societal level, this will impact people's support and acceptance of ND people, when there is still a fight for just a basic level of understanding
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Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House."
Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:
Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:
March 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House."
Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:
Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:
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To keepers if the kingdom
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To keepers if the kingdom
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Progressive Piety
Progress How’s it coming along?Is the female form finally free?And all the human forms, those forms where personhood and physicality and embodiment are not what appearances suggest…
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March 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A non-invasive new breakthrough technology is capable of slashing greenhouse gas emissions from manure by more than 80%, writes George Lee.
The breakthrough tech reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Manure from the cows owned by dairy farmer Raymond Goggin produces about 1,000 tonnes of slurry every winter, and this year's supply contains more nutrients than ever before.
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March 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A non-invasive new breakthrough technology is capable of slashing greenhouse gas emissions from manure by more than 80%, writes George Lee.
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The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad.
It’s bad to live under an autocrat. You shouldn’t want that. It’s no fun, it hurts all but a tiny few, and it gets a whole lot of people killed.
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It’s bad to live under an autocrat. You shouldn’t want that. It’s no fun, it hurts all but a tiny few, and it gets a whole lot of people killed.
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Autocrats Are Bad, Actually
The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad.
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February 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad.
It’s bad to live under an autocrat. You shouldn’t want that. It’s no fun, it hurts all but a tiny few, and it gets a whole lot of people killed.
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It’s bad to live under an autocrat. You shouldn’t want that. It’s no fun, it hurts all but a tiny few, and it gets a whole lot of people killed.
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It started with the notion that some human beings are more worthy of life than others– and that some evils are tolerable in the interest of safety and prosperity for the right people.
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What If They're Not Concentration Camps?
Once we accept that treatment we wouldn't want visited on our own children is all right for somebody else's children-- that's what we've decided to do, to somebody. The question of how many somebodies...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It started with the notion that some human beings are more worthy of life than others– and that some evils are tolerable in the interest of safety and prosperity for the right people.
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A community that won’t work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There’s nowhere else to go once you’ve made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim.
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What Is Spiritual Abuse?
A community that won't work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There's nowhere else to go once you've made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A community that won’t work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There’s nowhere else to go once you’ve made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim.
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I’ve been pondering why it took so long to realize we were being abused, and that it was spiritual abuse.
Why is it so hard to notice when we’re being spiritually abused?
Why is spiritual abuse so hard to name?
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Why is it so hard to notice when we’re being spiritually abused?
Why is spiritual abuse so hard to name?
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Five Ways To Spot Spiritual Abuse
Many years ago now, I went on retreat for the weekend with my FUS "faith household." A faith household is an institution unique to Franciscan
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February 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’ve been pondering why it took so long to realize we were being abused, and that it was spiritual abuse.
Why is it so hard to notice when we’re being spiritually abused?
Why is spiritual abuse so hard to name?
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Why is it so hard to notice when we’re being spiritually abused?
Why is spiritual abuse so hard to name?
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I could tell it was Jimmy because he’s a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a messy blond man bun. I knew his boy was with him because his boy always tags along, when Jimmy does his neighborhood rounds.
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The Price Of An Onion
There was a knock at the door. I could tell it was Jimmy because he's a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a
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February 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I could tell it was Jimmy because he’s a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a messy blond man bun. I knew his boy was with him because his boy always tags along, when Jimmy does his neighborhood rounds.
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“Partly because the good ones all go to the United States,” she added.
My heart sank.
“Raspberries are the worst.”
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My heart sank.
“Raspberries are the worst.”
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Fruit Is Expensive Where It Grows
I have a friend who lives in rural Mexico. We don't get to talk often because the wifi isn't good there. Nothing is terribly good there. Scorpions
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February 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“Partly because the good ones all go to the United States,” she added.
My heart sank.
“Raspberries are the worst.”
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My heart sank.
“Raspberries are the worst.”
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The life of human cities is not the life of biomes, and the decay of human cities is a different decay than that of trees. Here in this abandoned and dying steel mill town, life does not give way to more life but to dust and rust and ash.
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I Am Not Used To The Living
Between a dirt path and a paved sidewalk, there is a gulf like the one between Heaven and Hell.
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February 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The life of human cities is not the life of biomes, and the decay of human cities is a different decay than that of trees. Here in this abandoned and dying steel mill town, life does not give way to more life but to dust and rust and ash.
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“You should have kept him on the leash!” I scolded. “What would you have said if he’d drowned?”
“At least he went out with a splash?” joked the girl who was raised in a cult.
On the way back to Steubenville, the girl revealed she was homeless.
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“At least he went out with a splash?” joked the girl who was raised in a cult.
On the way back to Steubenville, the girl revealed she was homeless.
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When The World Is Returning To Life
Once I went with her and a group of friends on a hike at Raccoon Creek State Park, in March, when the world is returning to life.
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February 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“You should have kept him on the leash!” I scolded. “What would you have said if he’d drowned?”
“At least he went out with a splash?” joked the girl who was raised in a cult.
On the way back to Steubenville, the girl revealed she was homeless.
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“At least he went out with a splash?” joked the girl who was raised in a cult.
On the way back to Steubenville, the girl revealed she was homeless.
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I think of the people I was supposed to be, standing in the presence of God. They are legion. They are easy to call to mind. I think about them all the time, after all, because I’m constantly ashamed that I didn’t become what they are.
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I Try To Imagine, I Try To Pray
Her veil is a nebula, a whole world of stars more colorful than any rainbow. There, now I've set the scene. I can pray. What do I say? Not very much.
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February 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I think of the people I was supposed to be, standing in the presence of God. They are legion. They are easy to call to mind. I think about them all the time, after all, because I’m constantly ashamed that I didn’t become what they are.
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Catholic Traditionalist: A good Catholic woman needs to dress exactly like the Virgin Mary in a long skirt and blouse with a scarf or she is committing a mortal sin. This has always been the rule.
Saint Joan of Arc: Merde.
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Saint Joan of Arc: Merde.
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A Catholic Traditionalist Confronts History
Catholic Traditionalist: We are REAL Catholics! Our religious practice is pure and unchanged from the beginning of the Church! Medieval European
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February 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Catholic Traditionalist: A good Catholic woman needs to dress exactly like the Virgin Mary in a long skirt and blouse with a scarf or she is committing a mortal sin. This has always been the rule.
Saint Joan of Arc: Merde.
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Saint Joan of Arc: Merde.
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The other night, Adrienne and I were reminiscing about the dollhouse and all the wonderful fantasies we acted out with the Japanese action figures and the G. I. Joes, who are much better than Barbies in a Barbie Dreamhouse because they can bend their knees and sit.
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But The Water Knows Me
The names of the twins were Sammiel and Gabbiel. Sammy and Gabby, for short. The other night, Adrienne and I were reminiscing about the dollhouse
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February 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The other night, Adrienne and I were reminiscing about the dollhouse and all the wonderful fantasies we acted out with the Japanese action figures and the G. I. Joes, who are much better than Barbies in a Barbie Dreamhouse because they can bend their knees and sit.
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Such a fun game to play on a warm summer evening, two and a half decades ago, when I believed that all the Nazis were dead and gone.
I’ve had that memory bouncing in my head for days.
It feels so different now.
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I’ve had that memory bouncing in my head for days.
It feels so different now.
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A Mayfly
The times continue to be interesting. I keep thinking about what story a historian would make out of my life and times one day. I wonder if any
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February 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Such a fun game to play on a warm summer evening, two and a half decades ago, when I believed that all the Nazis were dead and gone.
I’ve had that memory bouncing in my head for days.
It feels so different now.
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I’ve had that memory bouncing in my head for days.
It feels so different now.
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I remember seeing Pope Francis giving an awkward wave from the balcony that very first day so many years ago, and being charmed by his bemused expression.
I remember kneeling in my living room when he blessed the whole world during the COVID pandemic.
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I remember kneeling in my living room when he blessed the whole world during the COVID pandemic.
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A Prayer For Pope Francis
I want to say something about Pope Francis. Lord knows I am a terrible cynic about the Catholic hierarchy these days, and they've earned it. I am
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February 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I remember seeing Pope Francis giving an awkward wave from the balcony that very first day so many years ago, and being charmed by his bemused expression.
I remember kneeling in my living room when he blessed the whole world during the COVID pandemic.
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I remember kneeling in my living room when he blessed the whole world during the COVID pandemic.
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The Catholic Church has declared that in vitro fertilization is a mortal sin. You’re only allowed to make a baby in the strict sense if you’re also making a baby in the colloquial sense, with your lawful wedded wife.
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On The Deadbeat Dad, Elon Musk
Right-wing Catholic commentators condemned absent fathers—until Elon Musk. What does their silence reveal about race, hypocrisy, and double standards?
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February 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Catholic Church has declared that in vitro fertilization is a mortal sin. You’re only allowed to make a baby in the strict sense if you’re also making a baby in the colloquial sense, with your lawful wedded wife.
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The grotto itself was curtained away from the rest of the world by a roodscreen of icicles at least ten feet long.
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Breaking The Ice With Jesus
Now it was noisy again, because the stream of water was still alive below the ice-- but oh, what glorious ice!
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February 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The grotto itself was curtained away from the rest of the world by a roodscreen of icicles at least ten feet long.
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However tired you are of seeing the boilerplate, I'm twice as tired of busking. But we had to swipe the bank card for the water bill, which means there will be fees again or worse, and we mailed rent just hoping it would be there.
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Blogkeeping Notes For The Winter
Hello friends, this isn't a real post. I'm writing an actual post in a tab right now. This is just the every-several-weeks boilerplate about what I've done lately, where to catch me when I'm not on Pa...
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February 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
However tired you are of seeing the boilerplate, I'm twice as tired of busking. But we had to swipe the bank card for the water bill, which means there will be fees again or worse, and we mailed rent just hoping it would be there.
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