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September 2020

September 04, 2020
Source: Being.the.traveller for pexels.com In the third post on my series about non-European saints, I...

August 2020

August 31, 2020
Source: Bintu Malu for pexels.com "The only refuge of a Christian is courage" - Father...
August 28, 2020
Source: Nachelle Nocom for pexels.com   It’s very curious how the Catholic Church (both as...
August 06, 2020
Hi there! I’m Veronica, the newest contributor to The Shoeless Banshee blog.  I’ve guest blogged...

July 2020

July 10, 2020
  Her name is Nikki Addimando and she is a victim.  For years she braved...

June 2020

June 19, 2020
Billy Joel and Glass Houses Glass Houses Most of us, at some point in life,...
June 02, 2020
Today is the celebration of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, in the...

December 2019

December 24, 2019
A transsexual friend asked me, “Will they love me when she’s gone? Will all the...
December 13, 2019
  Social media is at its best a helpful tool and at its worst a...
December 12, 2019
  Content warning: discussion includes domestic violence, PTSD, gun violence, and stalking. . . ....

November 2019

November 22, 2019
  ***Content Warning: Child Loss***   This spring, I spent way too much time with...
November 11, 2019
Two days ago I celebrated my 25th birthday. To mark this important milestone, I finally...
November 09, 2019
  As a young stay-at-home mother in the rural Midwest, I find a lot of...
November 09, 2019
   Back in 2014 when artist Kesha Rose Serbert (known as Kesha)  entered rehab, I...

October 2019

October 18, 2019
A few months ago (perhaps in July) I stumbled upon a reflection on God as...

July 2019

July 21, 2019
It is the apparently tenuous question so much of the debate with the sex abuse...
July 09, 2019
I don’t usually write when I’m this angry. Healthy ways of dealing with anger is...
July 07, 2019
  Welcome to Strange Enchantments. Our brief moments together tonight are devoted to the spells...

June 2019

June 23, 2019
You were presented in the beginning As pristine, unblemished, pure one We were instructed so...
June 18, 2019
  Paying Prolife Protesters Back in August (or perhaps even earlier) I started to see...

May 2019

May 10, 2019
***TRIGGER WARNING: ABORTION*** A lot had been building up to that moment. My mind was...

April 2019

April 20, 2019
It’s a magnificent day in Wisconsin, all sunshine and gentle winds and temperate air. Not...
April 19, 2019
  I remember a few years ago, my mom talking about the priest sex abuse...
April 12, 2019
There is one thing that I really did not like about the film Unplanned. At the...
April 11, 2019
I swooned as I read the words: Thus amongst the blessings of marriage, the child...
April 03, 2019
Crocus budding in snow. Source: pxhere   Editor's note: My good friend Maiasson sent me...

March 2019

March 31, 2019
I was a college student when I first learned that St. Francis of Assisi had...
March 29, 2019
I’ve always been a Catholic. A classic “cradle” Catholic. My parents were even the archetype...
March 23, 2019
  Yesterday I wrote about speaking up as a survivor of domestic violence in a...
March 23, 2019
I’ve been thinking recently about trauma. And about writing. And about writing publicly about trauma...
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