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September 2020

September 04, 2020

Asian and Oceanic Saints Who Were People of Color

Source: Being.the.traveller for pexels.com In the third post on my series about non-European saints, I...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

African Saints Who Were People of Color

Source: Bintu Malu for pexels.com "The only refuge of a Christian is courage" - Father...

August 28, 2020

American Saints Who Were People of Color

Source: Nachelle Nocom for pexels.com It’s very curious how the Catholic Church (both as...

August 06, 2020

Introducing Veronica Roltgen: You’re Not A Good Or Bad Catholic, You’re Just Catholic

Hi there! I’m Veronica, the newest contributor to The Shoeless Banshee blog. I’ve guest blogged...

July 2020

July 10, 2020

Broken Glass: When Domestic Violence Ends in Murder

Her name is Nikki Addimando and she is a victim. For years she braved...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

Confessions of a White Ally

Billy Joel and Glass Houses Glass Houses Most of us, at some point in life,...

June 02, 2020

Mother of the Church, Mother of the Queer and Outcast

Today is the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, in the...

December 2019

December 24, 2019

Trans-ition Reflect-ion

A transsexual friend asked me, “Will they love me when she’s gone? Will all the...

December 13, 2019

Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Feast and Catholic Inconsistency

Social media is at its best a helpful tool and at its worst a...

December 12, 2019

Trauma Survivors Have Had It With Hallmark-esque Christmas Stories

Content warning: discussion includes domestic violence, PTSD, gun violence, and stalking. . . ....

November 2019

November 22, 2019

Remembering My Sister I Never Met

***Content Warning: Child Loss*** This spring, I spent way too much time with...

November 11, 2019

Tattoos, Symbols, and Personal Significance

Two days ago I celebrated my 25th birthday. To mark this important milestone, I finally...

November 09, 2019

Authentic Catholic Femininity: Another Disappointment

As a young stay-at-home mother in the rural Midwest, I find a lot of...

November 09, 2019

Musing Musically: Grace Lee reflects on “Rainbow”

Back in 2014 when artist Kesha Rose Serbert (known as Kesha) entered rehab, I...

October 2019

October 18, 2019

God As Mother

A few months ago (perhaps in July) I stumbled upon a reflection on God as...

July 2019

July 21, 2019

Do Victims Matter?

It is the apparently tenuous question so much of the debate with the sex abuse...

July 09, 2019

Sex Abuse and a FOCUS Missionary

I don’t usually write when I’m this angry. Healthy ways of dealing with anger is...

July 07, 2019

Strange Enchantments: A Tribute

Welcome to Strange Enchantments. Our brief moments together tonight are devoted to the spells...

June 2019

June 23, 2019

The Church: Judge and Jailer

You were presented in the beginning As pristine, unblemished, pure one We were instructed so...

June 18, 2019

The Susan B. Anthony List: Paying Protesters in Support of Brett Kavanaugh

Paying Prolife Protesters Back in August (or perhaps even earlier) I started to see...

May 2019

May 10, 2019

The Day I Considered Abortion

***TRIGGER WARNING: ABORTION*** A lot had been building up to that moment. My mind was...

April 2019

April 20, 2019

Triduum Ponderings: Fasting and Coffee

It’s a magnificent day in Wisconsin, all sunshine and gentle winds and temperate air. Not...

April 19, 2019

Agony in the Garden: Their Voices Suffocate Me

I remember a few years ago, my mom talking about the priest sex abuse...

April 12, 2019

Brief Review of Unplanned

There is one thing that I really did not like about the film Unplanned. At the...

April 11, 2019

On Catholic Motherhood and Disillusionment

I swooned as I read the words: Thus amongst the blessings of marriage, the child...

April 03, 2019

Spring, Lent, and Mental Illness

Crocus budding in snow. Source: pxhere Editor's note: My good friend Maiasson sent me...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Francis and the Sultan: Thoughts in the Wake of Christchurch

I was a college student when I first learned that St. Francis of Assisi had...

March 29, 2019

Prayer Rugs and Prayer Beads

I’ve always been a Catholic. A classic “cradle” Catholic. My parents were even the archetype...

March 23, 2019

When They Tell You To “Be Another St. Monica”

Yesterday I wrote about speaking up as a survivor of domestic violence in a...

March 23, 2019

In Defense of Our Right to Raw and Uncomfortable Honesty: Why Abuse Survivors Speak Out

I’ve been thinking recently about trauma. And about writing. And about writing publicly about trauma...

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