Valid Marriages and Sacraments: Honest Deeds, Honest Words, and True Things
So, marriage has been a rather hot topic of late in the Church, what with Amoris Laetitia and Pope Francis’s recent comments that “a portion of our sacramental marriages are null.” So, rather than...
View ArticleVocation: Get Food On the Table, Then We Can Talk About Beatitude
It’s no secret I’m a fan of David Foster Wallace. The first thing I remember reading by him, shortly before graduating high school, was his Kenyon College commencement speech, commonly known as This is...
View ArticleWhen Good Catholic Women Take Birth Control
“In most cases it would have been possible to do something better than what an individual person actually did do. And yet it would be wrong to say that one is always duty-bound to do the best possible...
View ArticleTheology of the Body, Topless Picnics, and the Message Our Body Sends
So the fine fellows over at Mountain Catholic are running my thoughts rn on topless picnics, art, St. JPII’s Theology of the Body, and all sorts of fun things today. You should check those thoughts...
View ArticleMasturbation and Despair: A One Body Problem
Update: Mountain Catholic asked me to do a follow up podcast with them about this post. Link and some thoughts about why talk about sexual morality topics can be found here. This is going to mark the...
View ArticleMasturbation and Despair: A Podcast Follow Up with Mountain Catholic
Trigger/Content Warning: this post and podcast include discussion of sensitive topics such as masturbation and sexuality. So do what you will with that information. I had been talking to my friends...
View ArticleIntimacy and Isolation: A Two Body Problem
Preface: I write this as a Catholic who is speaking about sexuality to other Catholics. In doing so, I affirm my adherence to the teachings of Roman Catholic Church. If this is not your perspective, I...
View ArticleSilence, Predestination, and the Primacy of God’s Love
This week, I’ve been really struggling to find something to write about. With my Facebook feed enraged about any number of things, of late it sometimes seems the best thing any of us can do is to...
View ArticlePlease Stop Panicking About NFP: The Internet Makes Everything Scary
You know engagement and wedding season are heading to full force when you start seeing an uptick in posts talking about NFP. And along with those posts come the apparently requisite extremes that go...
View ArticleSt. Joseph, Masculinity, and Embracing Impositions
Sometimes, life requires embracing impositions. Like when I blew my tire out a few weeks ago, and in the spirit of exercising my capacities as a strong, independent, capable woman, I strongly,...
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