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The Apostolate of Being Normal
If you’ve spent any time in the conservative loop, you’ll know that most people have at least one apostolate in their lives, ‘apostolate’ meaning some sort of activity intended to make the world or the...
View ArticleNaive to Assume He Isn’t
So, I got Kilgraved. Then this happened: My best friend died eight months after her illness was diagnosed. During her last weeks, I had to search for words of comfort when she wondered why her priestly...
View ArticlePsychology vs Counselling
A psychologist’s daughter once told me that therapists were just people who failed psychology at university. (There’s that word ‘just’ again). There might have been some truth to this damning statement...
View ArticleTangled
There is some talk on social media at the moment about the value of the Consultation Draft of the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards. My experience tells me that it hardly matters. A published...
View ArticleQuestions to Ask When Choosing a Subculture (or When Getting Chosen by One).
Some of these come, not from my experience, but from the experiences of friends of other conservative subcultures (coughpersonalprelaturecough). The answers will have different consequences for...
View ArticleWhat Do We Change if We Stay?
Articles abound urging people who are leaving the Church to remain, so that they can, by remaining, save the Church (I think it’s just assumed that this is someone they’d want to do?) Well, obviously I...
View ArticleObedience vs Co-operation
The question here is not whether obedience to God is good or bad. The question here is what to do, even if obedience is good, once it has become a toxic concept for you, thanks to the lived experience...
View ArticleMy Christmas Thief and His Lesson in Truth
So, three parcels were stolen from my front doorstep (which is inside a building, and not immediately facing the street.) I lost two dresses, five skeins of undyed yarn, and two decks of art therapy...
View Article“…It Shouldn’t Be a Debate.”
WEIRD SYNCHRONICITY!! In preparation for placement, I’m volunteering two days a week. Last week, after posting as I did, I began preparations for a forthcoming creative workshop for expectant and...
View ArticlePell. What it Takes.
Pell was among the first leaders in Australia to introduce child-protection measures and systems for investigating abuse claims into his area of responsibility. His efforts pre-dated the Boston...
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