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2021-09-23T17:02:55-04:00

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A Word On Our Treatment Of Haitian Refugees

Last updated on: September 23, 2021 at 5:02 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I want to say a few words about our treatment of refugees. I’ve written about our treatment of refugees many times. This time, I’m responding to our treatment of refugees from Haiti. And I’m using the word “our” very deliberately, because the United States is supposed to be a representative democracy. What our government, its law enforcement and its military do is done in our name because we vote. When they do something wrong, we do something wrong. The sins... Read more

2021-09-27T20:50:59-04:00

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A Conversation About Victim Blaming

Last updated on: September 27, 2021 at 8:50 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I had hoped to write something more poetic about my daughter’s birthday, but first I’m going to have to address something that just happened to me on Twitter. I had admitted to my friends that I was having a bad day, when a follower asked me an insensitive question. That’s all it was at first, an insensitive question. Someone called Ana DiCostanzo asked me why I hadn’t called 911 when I was begging the midwife to take me to... Read more

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2021-09-21T12:39:36-04:00

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What Not to Say to a Rape Survivor on the Anniversary

Last updated on: September 21, 2021 at 12:39 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Just a content warning to anyone who doesn’t want to read the details of medical abuse and a rape today: I’m going to write about just that. I had something more poetic planned, but I received a very curious ignorant comment that I need to take to task. I’ll have a poetic musing a little later. Yesterday was the ten-year anniversary of my water breaking after nine days of prodromal labor, two weeks past my due date, and my midwife... Read more

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2021-09-27T21:22:59-04:00

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An Early Fall Trick-or-Treat

Last updated on: September 27, 2021 at 9:22 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Hey friends, this is not a real blog post. This is just my every-so-often reminder that Steel Magnificat and my family run almost entirely on tips. I get a very small paycheck from Patheos for clicks in the United States and nothing for clicks anywhere else. That check was a two-digit number this month. I get modest book royalties once a year. And the rest of my income to support my family is gratuities from satisfied readers. I have... Read more

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2021-09-20T11:36:46-04:00

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Seven to Seventy is the Way Home

Last updated on: September 20, 2021 at 11:36 am By Mary Pezzulo

I dreamed I was trying to get to Columbus. My first morning back in Steubenville, Saturday, I woke up smiling. I was ready to walk my friend’s dog, grab coffee, and sit in the Park of Roses for awhile. But then I heard the menacing neighbor‘s dog’s chain rattling next door, and remembered where I was. There was no friendly snuggly medium-sized dog who greatly enjoyed her long morning walk, just the German shepherd on a chain who likes... Read more

2021-09-19T22:59:05-04:00

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A Treasury of Catholic Nonsense

Last updated on: September 19, 2021 at 10:59 pm By Mary Pezzulo

The other day, someone on Twitter was asking for everyone to tweet the most ridiculous heretical statement they’d ever heard. “Heresy” has a very specific meaning in Catholicism, but in this case it was being used in its colloquial sense to mean “teaching that’s wrong.” As far as wrong teachings, I have heard about a million of them, and was at a loss to come up with my favorite. I was raised in the Charismatic Renewal and in Apparition Culture.... Read more

2021-09-17T21:20:11-04:00

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I Wanted To Tell You About Columbus

Last updated on: September 17, 2021 at 9:20 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I wanted to tell you about Columbus. I just got back. I was going to write about it every single day of my trip, but somehow my voice dropped off after Monday night. I’ve just been driving around the area, getting out of my car and remembering, getting back in and driving, going back to my friend’s house to walk the dog. Sometimes grief wells up and sometimes panic, but most of the time I have been happy. I... Read more

2021-09-13T20:50:45-04:00

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A Trip Back to School

Last updated on: September 13, 2021 at 8:50 pm By Mary Pezzulo

Today I took a trip down Memory Lane– or, as most people call it, High Street. I went to visit the church and school where I received Holy Communion. When I got to Saint Michael’s, it was noon. I recalled for the first time that the classes there were staggered so that some children would be at lunch and some at recess while others were still finishing classes, to fit everyone in the cafeteria. Some children were lined up... Read more

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2021-09-12T23:37:53-04:00

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The Font Was Also Christ

Last updated on: September 12, 2021 at 11:37 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I went to Mass at the cathedral, for the first time in decades. Saint Joseph Cathedral wasn’t our regular parish for most of my childhood, but it was the first five years or so. Some of my earlier memories are of being slung over the gray shoulder of my father’s Sunday suit, staring up at the frowning mouths of the organ pipes and the plaster statue of Saint Anne behind our usual pew. I had a vivid memory of... Read more

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2021-09-11T22:50:25-04:00

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September Roses

Last updated on: September 11, 2021 at 10:50 pm By Mary Pezzulo

I was supposed to be at a memorial service. My great aunt passed away this year– the one who tried to rescue a family of blacksnakes from a hole in the plaster. They held her memorial service in Yellow Springs this weekend and I wanted to attend. The circumstances came together so that I could: one friend generously got me a hotel room in Columbus, so I wouldn’t have to drive all the way there and back in one... Read more

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