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December 2021

December 23, 2021

Dark Devotional: The Virgin Mary’s Guide to Biblical Motherhood

When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son,...

December 16, 2021

Dark Devotional: Mary, Motherhood, and Mixed Feelings

Dark Devotional: Mary, Motherhood, and Mixed Feelings Behold, I am the handmaid of...

December 11, 2018

Strange Bodies, Strange Questions

“What about the self as the grotesque?. What happens when that category is applied...

July 2018

July 10, 2018

The Mothers at the Border Are Named Jochaved

Like many, I’ve been deeply grieved by the policy of family separation at the border....

May 2018

May 23, 2018

Family Photos, Statues, and Intergenerational Worry

Republished with Permission from the blog Crone Cafe That awkwardly-framed 80s photo is...

May 08, 2018

Reclaiming Mary

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

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...

December 2017

December 25, 2017

Christmas: It’s Complicated

Christmas is complicated. On one hand, the music is familiar, the smells are sweet, the...

September 2017

September 14, 2017

Dark Devotional: That’s the Wrong Baby

How do I forgive someone from my heart, when my heart still stings and I...

May 2017

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 27, 2017

Things Keeping Us Alive, March ’17

How's Lent going for you, pilgrims? The 40 days of preparation before Easter is typically...

December 2016

December 19, 2016

Jesus Frankenstein: Mary’s Baby and Mary Shelley’s Hideous Progeny

“I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion to be spurned at, and kicked,...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Light One Candle

Every week after Mass I light a candle. I love the smell of hot wax...