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2024-03-22T01:15:05-04:00

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Abuse and an Excommunication in the Diocese of Lafayette

Last updated on: March 22, 2024 at 1:15 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I want to draw your attention to an excommunication in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana. The circumstances surrounding it make me sick, and they ought to make you sick too. I was just made aware of the story of a former deacon, Scott Peyton, who has been excommunicated by Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette just this week. This is the second time I’ve had to write about abuse in 24 hours, but I just can’t let... Read more

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2024-03-21T17:57:01-04:00

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The Vatican, Saint Joseph, and Father Rupnik’s Blasphemy

Last updated on: March 21, 2024 at 5:57 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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The feast of Saint Joseph was a particularly horrible day to remember that the Catholic Church doesn’t care about victims of sexual abuse. This week was the solemnity of Saint Joseph, the husband and protector of Christ and the Virgin Mary, someone I often pray to for victims of clerical abuse. I think that Saint Joseph is a patron for anyone who is vulnerable or in danger, and I love invoking him when I feel afraid. So it was... Read more

2024-03-19T03:13:46-04:00

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Don’t Be This Person in the 2024 Election

Last updated on: March 19, 2024 at 3:13 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I keep thinking I’d better write about the presidential election again. This is hard to do, because the news keeps pouring out in a steady deluge. It’s so hard to write about the election because it changes hourly. Everything I say is old hat by the time I hit “publish.” Since I last wrote about politics, we’ve found out what could have already been guessed: the presidential election will come down to what amounts to two incumbents, Joe Biden... Read more

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2024-03-17T15:36:01-04:00

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I Will Glorify Again

Last updated on: March 17, 2024 at 3:36 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John: Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to... Read more

2024-03-16T02:45:37-04:00

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No Word but Conversion

Last updated on: March 16, 2024 at 2:45 am By Mary Pezzulo

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It’s so hard to find any words just now. After I’ve been sick, the last thing to come back online is my writing brain. I was sick for a week, and then I had a bout of terrible insomnia that made it impossible to function normally. That’s how my chronically ill body often responds to being sick. After that I sleep too much for a few days, and then I go on a hike, and eventually the words come back.... Read more

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2024-03-15T02:08:26-04:00

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Another Lawsuit for What’s Left of Church Militant?

Last updated on: March 15, 2024 at 2:08 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I didn’t think I’d be writing about what’s left of Church Militant so soon. But I’m very grateful to be reporting at Where Peter Is yet again, with a follow-up on my post from last week! It seems that the sins of Church Militant aren’t done falling down on the heads of everyone who had a hand in them. I’ve discovered that Truth Army, Joe Gallagher himself, and one other defendant are being sued for three million dollars by Patmos... Read more

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2024-03-13T02:40:02-04:00

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I Saw the Water Flowing

Last updated on: March 13, 2024 at 2:40 am By Mary Pezzulo

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It’s really spring now. The world is recalled to life. I was raised to believe that exactly one thing gives life, and that’s God. Everything else is an illusion. The created things you love are obstacles to that one pure source of life I don’t remember when I was told that, or by who; it was conveyed to me, that’s all. Now I believe that life wells up for you in all kinds of places. One of those places, for... Read more

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2024-03-10T15:08:03-04:00

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Blogkeeping Notes for Early Spring

Last updated on: March 10, 2024 at 3:08 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Hello Friends, This is just my monthly post of blogkeeping notes and all the things I was doing when I wasn’t at Patheos! First of all, as I explained a week or so ago, I’m sorry to suddenly go dark on Twitter/X where I’m usually glued to the screen! A nannybot caught me saying a phrase I heard on Sesame Street in the 80s and decided it was a violent threat, so I couldn’t post or like for 168... Read more

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2024-03-10T02:53:50-04:00

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When I Wasn’t Here

Last updated on: March 10, 2024 at 2:53 am By Mary Pezzulo

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I got sick again. I’d not been terribly sick in January or most of February, but then my number was up. First Adrienne brought home a severe head cold and a fever– the tests they swabbed for at the nurse’s office came up negative, so we’ve no reason to believe it was anything worse than that. She spent Monday drowsing at school and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday sick in bed at home, then Friday at school far too tired.... Read more

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2024-03-08T18:55:00-04:00

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Is Church Militant Becoming Truth Army?

Last updated on: March 8, 2024 at 6:55 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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Hey folks! Today, I’m honored to be writing over at “Where Peter Is” for the very first time. I know that a lot of my work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a paywall, but Where Peter Is is free. I am writing about an absolutely bonkers conspiracy theory website which seems to be in the process of taking over my old tabloid nemesis “Church Militant,” but possibly not. And in the process, I have discovered a truly awful documentary... Read more

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