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2023-10-27T13:35:54-04:00

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I Want to Say Something About Britney Spears

Last updated on: October 27, 2023 at 1:35 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I feel like I should say something about Britney Spears. There are so many things I need to write about just now. This is what happens when you catch your middle schooler’s head cold and take a couple of days off. There are a million and one important news items I have to catch up on for the blog, and I have other writing projects going on as well, but I keep coming back to Britney Spears. I knew next... Read more

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2023-10-26T22:58:41-04:00

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The Case of Father Rupnik Proves the Church Does Not Care

Last updated on: October 26, 2023 at 10:58 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I’ve been trying and trying to write about the new developments in the case of Father Rupnik. In case you haven’t heard, we now know that Slovenian priest Marko Rupnik, formerly famous for googly-eyed church icons and now famous for the most disgusting spiritual and sexual abuse of religious sisters, has quietly been incardinated in a diocese in Slovenia. Rupnik was exposed as a sex abuser of monstrous proportions; his victims were mostly religious sisters in the 80s and 90s,... Read more

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2023-10-23T21:29:13-04:00

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Modesty, Saint Pio, and a Good Strong Wind

Last updated on: October 23, 2023 at 9:29 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I came across one of those pious-sounding tidbits that fascinates me lately: the kind of exhortation that sounds bad enough at first glance but gets worse the longer you re-read it. They came from a random X/Twitter account, but the source was cited so I read the whole thing. It’s about everybody’s favorite topic: modesty. This is the passage in full: “Listen to the voice of Saint Padre Pio, Stigmatist… Given special guidance from Heaven, Saint Padre Pio the... Read more

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2023-10-23T14:24:54-04:00

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When Grief Gives Way to Peace

Last updated on: October 23, 2023 at 2:24 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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October Saturdays are soccer days. Adrienne is doing well at school and on her soccer team; she still wants me to respect her privacy and not tell many funny stories about her for the time being, because she’s growing up. I’m thankful for all the people who keep asking if she’s all right. She’s very happy. Five days a week she goes to school, and one day a week I have to drive her out to a field in the... Read more

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2023-10-19T14:09:06-04:00

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If We Let Turtles: A Lesson in Neurodiversity

Last updated on: October 19, 2023 at 2:09 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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My friend told me that the worst thing she ever did, was take the chest plate off a turtle. This happened a long time ago, when we were both teenagers in Columbus. She lived out in the country and I did not. She said she once found a box turtle sunning himself in the yard. She’d always wanted to know what the belly and chest of a turtle looked like underneath the shell. So she turned the unsuspecting creature... Read more

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2023-10-18T19:42:09-04:00

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An October Theophany

Last updated on: October 18, 2023 at 7:42 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I went on another October hike. I wasn’t supposed to be hiking today. I have deadlines and there isn’t any money. I woke up at nearly noon and had plenty of writing to do, but the first thing I did was jump into my stained hiking clothes and make sure my muddy hiking shoes were still in the backseat of Serendipity. Then I was on the road, across the Veteran’s Memorial Bridge that I call the Brig o’ Dread, through... Read more

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2023-10-17T14:16:20-04:00

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Joseph Czuba and the Violence of American Christianity

Last updated on: October 17, 2023 at 2:16 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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I didn’t think the news cycle could get more horrendous, but it has. Besides all the unimaginable suffering in Israel and Palestine, there’s been an anti-Palestinian hate crime here in America. It’s been reported that Joseph Czuba, a landlord in Plainville, Illinois, stabbed his tenant, Hanaan Shahin, and then murdered her six-year-old son, Wadea Al Fayoume. Shahin had emigrated from the West Bank to escape the violence twelve years ago. Al Fayoume had not been afraid of his... Read more

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2023-10-17T01:13:42-04:00

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Sunday, Outside the Church

Last updated on: October 17, 2023 at 1:13 am By Mary Pezzulo

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On Sunday I went to Mass, but I didn’t get out of my car. Adrienne had brought home another head cold from school, and I caught it a few days after she was done with it. The head cold meant I had a good excuse to stay home with no Catholic guilt, but I didn’t want to. I also didn’t want to go inside, and make people sick, and have a panic attack to boot. I have had panic attacks... Read more

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2023-10-14T20:37:07-04:00

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And Go To The Wedding

Last updated on: October 14, 2023 at 8:37 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew: Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves... Read more

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2023-10-12T13:52:05-04:00

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Here We Go Round the Sun

Last updated on: October 12, 2023 at 1:52 pm By Mary Pezzulo

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The sun came out on my 39th birthday, after several days of October gloom. I was born at Saint Anne’s Hospital, which is technically in Westerville but might as well be Columbus, on October eleventh, 1984. My mother and father were very studious at their Lamaze classes, to no avail. I stubbornly refused to come out. All four of my younger siblings were scheduled Caesarian births, but mine was the first, a last ditch Caesarian after 24 hours of labor.... Read more

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