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Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration @benedictinesisters.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
[PIC] Sunlight streams through an open window [TEXT] Lord, meet us in the ache of what didn’t come to pass  - the dream we held so tightly that now sits empty in our hands. Help us grieve what we lost without losing our trust in You. Remind us that closed doors are not the end of the story and that our hope placed in You is never wasted. Renew our hearts to dream again, in Your time and Your way. Amen.​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Ryan Dunlavey @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
7. If people on the left cannot stand up for the victims of sexual abuse and genocide, what the hell are they for?
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
6. Rising to the challenge of moral consistency does not mean supporting your man through thick and thin. It means standing with the victims, whoever they might be, against the oppressors, whoever they might be. And, if necessary, making yourself unpopular in doing so.
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Michael Frost @michaelfrost6.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yep.
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Ordinary (Ruined) Catholic @ordinarycatholic.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Algorithms don't know better, but I'm getting some nasty posts about my faith in the discovery feed. The left is no better than the right. The Right wants to incapsulate and control my faith for its own power, the Left just wants to mock it for cheap karma points.
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sindeadroisin77.bsky.social @sindeadroisin77.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"Afterwards, I thought: Who does that? What world leader thanks someone for a challenging conversation? For me, that small gesture says a great deal about Pope Francis’s humility, openness and freedom, as well his willingness to listen and learn...."
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Fiona @fionasmall.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Wealthy, often (mostly) evil people have always existed but unlike noble families in the Renaissance patronising artists or robber barons in the Gilded Age funding medical research, libraries & universities, today’s oligarchs have little to none lasting positive cultural or philanthropic legacy
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Geste @geste.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
We don't recover. We learn to hide, often behind substance use and abuse.
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Niamh @niamhatheologian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
diagnosis of autism as woman who does not meet the stereotypes, commentary like this added to my sense of maybe being a fraud. But it is on a societal level, this will impact people's support and acceptance of ND people, when there is still a fight for just a basic level of understanding
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Remarks by Taoiseach Micheál Martin at White House Shamrock Ceremony: "Irish labourers came to help build the new Republic, the beacon on the hill. They even built this beautiful White House." Runaway slave advert placed by slave-owning Irish immigrant and architect of the White House, James Hoban:
This is an advert for a runaway slave that James Hoban placed in a Charleston newspaper (1789). "Peter" must have been captured for he appears in the list of Hoban's slaves that worked on building the White House in 1792.
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sindeadroisin77.bsky.social @sindeadroisin77.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
@messengerpubs.bsky.social @bishopfintan.bsky.social @coraofarrell.bsky.social @kohsj.bsky.social @catholicyouthmi.bsky.social @catholicbishops.bsky.social @fr-martin-homilies.bsky.social @tonymgt.bsky.social To keepers if the kingdom reflectiveweaver.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/p...
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Progressive Piety
Progress How’s it coming along?Is the female form finally free?And all the human forms, those forms where personhood and physicality and  embodiment are not what appearances suggest…
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 11/03/2025
A non-invasive new breakthrough technology is capable of slashing greenhouse gas emissions from manure by more than 80%, writes George Lee.
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The breakthrough tech reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Manure from the cows owned by dairy farmer Raymond Goggin produces about 1,000 tonnes of slurry every winter, and this year's supply contains more nutrients than ever before.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad. It’s bad to live under an autocrat. You shouldn’t want that. It’s no fun, it hurts all but a tiny few, and it gets a whole lot of people killed. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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Autocrats Are Bad, Actually
The obvious, non-obvious, mundane and controversial statement is this: autocratic governments are bad.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It started with the notion that some human beings are more worthy of life than others– and that some evils are tolerable in the interest of safety and prosperity for the right people. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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What If They're Not Concentration Camps?
Once we accept that treatment we wouldn't want visited on our own children is all right for somebody else's children-- that's what we've decided to do, to somebody. The question of how many somebodies...
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A community that won’t work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There’s nowhere else to go once you’ve made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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What Is Spiritual Abuse?
A community that won't work against abuse becomes an abusive community. This is inevitable. There's nowhere else to go once you've made the decision to cover things up, ignore them or blame the victim...
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’ve been pondering why it took so long to realize we were being abused, and that it was spiritual abuse. Why is it so hard to notice when we’re being spiritually abused? Why is spiritual abuse so hard to name? www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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Five Ways To Spot Spiritual Abuse
Many years ago now, I went on retreat for the weekend with my FUS "faith household." A faith household is an institution unique to Franciscan
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I could tell it was Jimmy because he’s a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a messy blond man bun. I knew his boy was with him because his boy always tags along, when Jimmy does his neighborhood rounds. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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The Price Of An Onion
There was a knock at the door. I could tell it was Jimmy because he's a bit short, so all I could see through the pane on the door was a
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“Partly because the good ones all go to the United States,” she added. My heart sank. “Raspberries are the worst.” www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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Fruit Is Expensive Where It Grows
I have a friend who lives in rural Mexico. We don't get to talk often because the wifi isn't good there. Nothing is terribly good there. Scorpions
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The life of human cities is not the life of biomes, and the decay of human cities is a different decay than that of trees. Here in this abandoned and dying steel mill town, life does not give way to more life but to dust and rust and ash. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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I Am Not Used To The Living
Between a dirt path and a paved sidewalk, there is a gulf like the one between Heaven and Hell.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
“You should have kept him on the leash!” I scolded. “What would you have said if he’d drowned?” “At least he went out with a splash?” joked the girl who was raised in a cult. On the way back to Steubenville, the girl revealed she was homeless. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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When The World Is Returning To Life
Once I went with her and a group of friends on a hike at Raccoon Creek State Park, in March, when the world is returning to life.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I think of the people I was supposed to be, standing in the presence of God. They are legion. They are easy to call to mind. I think about them all the time, after all, because I’m constantly ashamed that I didn’t become what they are. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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I Try To Imagine, I Try To Pray
Her veil is a nebula, a whole world of stars more colorful than any rainbow. There, now I've set the scene. I can pray. What do I say? Not very much.
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Catholic Traditionalist: A good Catholic woman needs to dress exactly like the Virgin Mary in a long skirt and blouse with a scarf or she is committing a mortal sin. This has always been the rule. Saint Joan of Arc: Merde. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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A Catholic Traditionalist Confronts History
Catholic Traditionalist: We are REAL Catholics! Our religious practice is pure and unchanged from the beginning of the Church! Medieval European
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The other night, Adrienne and I were reminiscing about the dollhouse and all the wonderful fantasies we acted out with the Japanese action figures and the G. I. Joes, who are much better than Barbies in a Barbie Dreamhouse because they can bend their knees and sit. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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But The Water Knows Me
The names of the twins were Sammiel and Gabbiel. Sammy and Gabby, for short. The other night, Adrienne and I were reminiscing about the dollhouse
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Such a fun game to play on a warm summer evening, two and a half decades ago, when I believed that all the Nazis were dead and gone. I’ve had that memory bouncing in my head for days. It feels so different now. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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A Mayfly
The times continue to be interesting. I keep thinking about what story a historian would make out of my life and times one day. I wonder if any
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I remember seeing Pope Francis giving an awkward wave from the balcony that very first day so many years ago, and being charmed by his bemused expression. I remember kneeling in my living room when he blessed the whole world during the COVID pandemic. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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A Prayer For Pope Francis
I want to say something about Pope Francis. Lord knows I am a terrible cynic about the Catholic hierarchy these days, and they've earned it. I am
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The Catholic Church has declared that in vitro fertilization is a mortal sin. You’re only allowed to make a baby in the strict sense if you’re also making a baby in the colloquial sense, with your lawful wedded wife. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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On The Deadbeat Dad, Elon Musk
Right-wing Catholic commentators condemned absent fathers—until Elon Musk. What does their silence reveal about race, hypocrisy, and double standards?
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The grotto itself was curtained away from the rest of the world by a roodscreen of icicles at least ten feet long. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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Breaking The Ice With Jesus
Now it was noisy again, because the stream of water was still alive below the ice-- but oh, what glorious ice!
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
However tired you are of seeing the boilerplate, I'm twice as tired of busking. But we had to swipe the bank card for the water bill, which means there will be fees again or worse, and we mailed rent just hoping it would be there. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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Blogkeeping Notes For The Winter
Hello friends, this isn't a real post. I'm writing an actual post in a tab right now. This is just the every-several-weeks boilerplate about what I've done lately, where to catch me when I'm not on Pa...
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Global Sisters Report @sistersreport.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Communities of women religious have established relationships with Native tribes whose ancestral lands the sisters currently own, and consider what land justice could look like under their care. www.globalsistersreport.org/social-justi...
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Whose land is this land? Sisters, Native tribes begin process of land justice
Communities of women religious have established relationships with Native tribes whose ancestral lands the sisters currently own, and consider what land justice could look like under their care.
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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
saw some prominent graphboy in America complaining about France rebuilding Notre Dame when the same amount of money could have saved 47,500 lives or some such Benthamite fever dream and then I remembered this piece of reporting. The infinite desire you feel is because you were made for eternity.
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Philip Nolan @philipnolan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Have a wee look in the mirror, @time-magazine.bsky.social, and ask yourselves one question. Who was more deserving of Person of the Year - an adjudged sex offender, or a woman who incredibly bravely testified against her rapists? Your shame will live forever.
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sindeadroisin77.bsky.social @sindeadroisin77.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
All denominations have been targeted. So many things renemiscent of the early 80s
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John Mack @johnpmack.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
On Dec. 2, 1980, three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) and one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, and murdered upon their return from Comalapa International Airport in El Salvador by members of the U.S. backed National Guard. +El Salvador martyrs, Pray for us
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The first words of God after the Fall of Man are “Where are you? Who told you that you were naked?” The immediate reaction of God to the Fall is “Where are my children, and who taught them to be ashamed?” www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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For He Has Done Marvelous Deeds
I listened to the readings last night, at the Mass for the Immaculate Conception, and I began to ponder. I pondered Genesis, the account of the Fall of
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Mary Pezzulo @marypezzulo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“What is Truth?” asks Pilate. Pilate wants to have a cold, gentlemanly philosophical debate. He doesn’t realize that Truth is standing right in front of him, tied up and roughed up and about to be lynched. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
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You Say I Am A King
That is the type of king that Pilate has in mind, when he asks if Jesus is a king. Jesus doesn't answer: at least...
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Authoritarianism is the desire to be incompetent without repercussions.
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sindeadroisin77.bsky.social @sindeadroisin77.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.facebook.com/share/14S7CW... "They reacted as if hers were a cheeky affront to their absolute patriarchal authority to make decisions, preside at the Eucharist, and run the Roman Catholic Church as the dysfunctional boys’ club it was revealed to be in subsequent decades."
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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This 👇🏼 all of this! 👏🏻 “Finally, how is it possible that in 2012 15% of Higher Level students were able to get an A, but approximately 4% of students can now hope to achieve a distinction? This grade deflation is demoralising to those who have worked and who deserve to see their hard work rewarded.”
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Kevin Hargaden @kevinhargaden.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Gordon Brown writes from deep personal experience of tragic death and why it formed his *opposition* to assisted dying www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Spending time with people in their final days showed me that we need not assisted dying, but better end-of-life care | Gordon Brown
We can and must improve on our current end-of-life options – ‘Switzerland, suicide or suffering’, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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Ciara Quill @ciaraquill.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Secretaries and caretakers are the backbone of any school, primary or secondary. Schools just can’t function without them. As a teacher, I have nothing but the utmost respect for them. They are the unsung heroes. They deserve better pay, conditions and recognition for all that they do. #edchatie
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Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
By way of introduction to new chums on this platform, here are some insights into the work I am doing. Please consider sharing this call .https://www.northernirelandworld.com/community/the-truth-of-mother-and-baby-homes-is-a-global-story-truth-recovery-independent-panel-appeals-for-testimony-4874315
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sindeadroisin77.bsky.social @sindeadroisin77.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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