At every intersection of political examination of conscience, I come to the word peace and rummage in my mind for an spiritual reasoning that explains why I have never heard the word “drone” in any Catholic space or conversation. I suppose because most Catholics, sitting upon the words “political” and “reflection” come to the two […]
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Why This Isn’t About Gay Marriage: Mike Moroski and Modern Day Catholicism
One of the most challenging calls of being a modern day Catholic is to openly and publicly be yourself. For years, the combination of working for the church and writing progressively on issues relating to feminism, gender, and reproductive health made me feel like I was living a double life. I would turn down writing […]
Mary Magdalen as a Sex Positive Therapist: What Catholic Women Can Learn from the Most Misunderstood Figure in the New Testament
One of the mystifying aspects of my studying the US mainstream feminist movement has been the “sex positive” feminists. In my cursory reading of it (I nearly exclusively read authors on women of color feminism and poetry), my general understanding of it comes from the 1980s Sex Pos movement which came as a – somewhat […]
When We Thought Men Could Have Abortions and Other Problems with Outdated Biology
One of the reasons that masturbation was seen as uh, problematic, in the Catholic Church is based in outdated biology. Back in the good ol’ days where the medical world thought women were simply incubators for fetuses, it was a widely understood truth that men carried the life. Men were seen as the carriers of […]
Weekly Spiritual Grub
Most recently, I was asked to give a very brief “deep thought of the week,” for my ministry. Weekly email blasts go out to subscribed parishioners and at the bottom of the email is a “spiritual deep thought of the week” by yours truly. I thought I’d begin posting them here as well. I’ve received […]