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

  I was six years old, watching Ghostbusters. It's near the end of the movie,...

  I released the cricket from its cage After being deaf to its music Its...

  The womb of the earth convulsed as He gave a sharp inhale Sitting upright...

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

Christ died today. I will not go into the mechanics, the psychological and physical torment,...

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

I can already feel your venomous fangs dripping to latch onto my neck after reading...

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

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

    Yesterday, there were concrete bags in place of my hands and feet and shoulders ...

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

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

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

This post is in response to an article published through Verily on March 13, 2019 titled,...

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

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

When I think of Joseph, I think of his Son. I think of Him standing...

The title may sound self-congratulatory, but it's truly not meant to be. It's just that...

  Content Warning: language, stereotypical hateful opinion of Thoreau   I saw an ad today...

Grief. Source: Wikipedia Commons   Once, in trauma therapy last year, my counselor mentioned to...

  Trigger Warning: suicide . . . .   The neighbor upstairs killed herself last...

We are the dirt beneath Your fingernails  Lord, how can You stand us? We are...

This review by a guest contributor goes into details that are spoilers for the trilogy...

(This post is in response to a "Faith & Reason" letter written by Benjamin Ranieri...

  On New Year’s Eve I spent some time reflecting, and I wrote my thoughts...

    My mom and I were just discussing the bizarre crises of identity this...

  My freshman year at Franciscan University of Steubenville, I was required to read books...

I attended Franciscan University of Steubenville from the Fall of 2011 to the Spring of...

Yesterday morning I had the hilariously stupid delight of seeing the movie Holmes and Watson....