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March 2020

March 03, 2020

Stardust to Dust: Lent as a Search for the Marvelous and Sacred

On Ash Wednesday, to everyone’s surprise, especially mine, I went to the early morning mass...

February 2020

February 26, 2020

Ash Wednesday with St. Anne

St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, grandmother of Jesus, is the patroness of mothers....

February 27, 2019

Just a Little of That Human Touch

Tell me, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

The Strangeness of Mary’s Body

"Can you comment on the self as grotesque?" The men on the panel at the...

November 07, 2018

Why I Can’t Stay

Something changed inside of me during the week following this summer’s shattering Pennsylvania Grand Jury...

October 2018

October 08, 2018

Women Watch the Witch While Kavanaugh is Confirmed

The Witch: A New England Folktale, one of the best horror movies of the last...

October 05, 2018

One Body: A Mother Reads the Creation Narrative

The last time I sat down to write a Dark Devotional, a meditation on the...

July 2018

July 11, 2018

Dark Devotional: My Bittersweet Birthright

Reading Scripture is rarely a balm to me. Since I was a small child I...

May 2018

May 14, 2018

When NFP Doesn’t Work: A Conclusion to Our ‘You Are Not Alone’ Series

I've been reluctant to write an essay like this. I wanted to let the...

May 08, 2018

Reclaiming Mary

I was an evangelical Christian first, a convert to Catholicism later in life. Mary was...

May 02, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VIII

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

April 2018

April 26, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part VII

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

April 16, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part V

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will...

April 10, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part IV

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

April 04, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part III

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part II

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae this summer, Sick Pilgrim will be...

March 19, 2018

You Are Not Alone: Catholic Women’s Real Life Experiences of NFP, Part I

In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Sick Pilgrim is featuring a series...

November 2017

November 09, 2017

Five Lessons I Learned from Dorothy Day

In my 33 years as a Catholic, I’ve found the saints--canonized or not--have often found me...

October 2017

October 09, 2017

The Bleeding Woman

When two friends told me that not only was the Bleeding Woman their favorite...

September 2017

September 26, 2017

How Blogs Hurt (and Help) the Catholic Church–especially Catholic Women

I’m a voracious reader of religion journalism and theology, but I’m not a journalist...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Narcissism, Exorcism, and the True Nature of Evil

Sixty years ago, C.S. Lewis began his book, Mere Christianity by giving us an example...

August 13, 2017

St. Maximilian Kolbe, Pray for Me, a Sinner, and a White Man.

I'm a white male, age 35-45. According to all statistics and research, I have power...

July 2017

July 21, 2017

Mary Magdalene, Wonder Woman, and Me

In honor of the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, July 22 I wore a long,...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

Looking Past the Miracle: The Poetry of Mary Szybist

I first heard Mary Szybist’s poems about 13 years ago in a St. Louis reading...

May 12, 2017

Dark Devotional: Three Ways to Survive the Mother’s Day Homily

Dear Catholic Women, If none of your children have any embarrassing quirks, or if your...

March 2017

March 11, 2017

That viral video of the interrupted professor? I don’t think it’s funny.

It crowded my newsfeed on Friday, accompanied by many “LOLs” and my favorite “laughing to...

March 08, 2017

It Didn’t Count: Sexual Assault and Virginity

“An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable,...

March 02, 2017

Dark Devotional: How Do I Get to the Desert?

I learned I had no discipline or willpower at age nine when my fourth grade...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Beyonce and the Black Madonna

A few thoughts on Beyonce's pregnant body: It is breathtakingly beautiful. It is unashamedly sensual....

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Dark Devotional: Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

5 When Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the [a]mountain; and after He...