Mike Lewis
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What once was unthinkable—publicly accusing the pope of heresy or implying he is a danger to the faith—is now routine in certain circles. For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
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When the Scales Fell from Our Conservative Catholic Eyes
There’s something that many right-wing Catholics—especially those who fiercely oppose Pope Francis—don’t seem to understand about people like me: we were once part of their world. We admired the same ...
https://wherepeteris.com/when-the-scales-fell-from-our-conservative-catholic-eyes/
7 months ago
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Time for some real talk. Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
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Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass
Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...
https://wherepeteris.com/straight-answers-the-reasons-behind-restricting-the-latin-mass/
9 days ago
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Time for some real talk. Many Catholics devoted to the Tridentine Mass believe the recent restrictions are arbitrary or unjust—but the reasons behind them are real, concrete, and specific, and those reasons may be hard for some to hear.
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Straight Answers: The Reasons Behind Restricting the Latin Mass
Traditionalists often argue that Traditionis Custodes and diocesan limitations on the Tridentine Mass are unnecessary, punitive, and directed at sincere Catholics who only want to worship as their anc...
https://wherepeteris.com/straight-answers-the-reasons-behind-restricting-the-latin-mass/
9 days ago
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The Amish Anglo-Catholic
about 2 months ago
This is just textbook 1930’s fascism
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The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
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False orthodoxy and fired professors
Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...
https://wherepeteris.com/false-orthodoxy-and-fired-professors/
3 months ago
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PBS News
2 months ago
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
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The removal of three outspoken critics of Pope Francis from Sacred Heart Seminary exposes a deeper crisis in the U.S. Church—where dissent from the Magisterium is masked as fidelity and ideology masquerades as orthodoxy.
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False orthodoxy and fired professors
Catholic social media has been abuzz in recent days over the news that three professors at Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit were dismissed from the faculty by Archbishop Edward Weisenburg. Eduardo Ech...
https://wherepeteris.com/false-orthodoxy-and-fired-professors/
3 months ago
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Dawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, STD
4 months ago
"Ultimately, The Sacred Heart: A Love for All Times by Dawn Eden Goldstein is more than a book about a devotion; it’s a heartfelt invitation to draw closer to Jesus Christ, whose Sacred Heart remains open to each of us." —
@mfjlewis.bsky.social
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@wherepeteris.com
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Tom
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Trad: “DO SOMETHING Bishops! Less dialogue, more keys! Man up!" Bishop: “ok your schismatic behavior will no longer be tolerated and you can virtue signal with your frills in the abandoned cafeteria from now on” Trad: “NOOO Tyrants of NuChurch REPRESSING me, I am JUST LIKE the MARTYRS of OLD!!!"
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𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜
4 months ago
I see that the Bishop of Winona-Rochester has announced and named his quarrel with "the extreme Catholic left." I presume he means the "woke" Catholics. It is embarrassing to explain this but there is no Catholic left. Left and woke aren't ontological categories and a bishop owes his care to...
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Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of my dear sister Kate. I wrote this two days after she died.
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My Sister’s Heart
One of the most formative events of my life happened a year before I was born. When she was about six weeks old, my sister Katie—my parents’ firstborn, the answer to prayer after years of infertility—...
https://wherepeteris.com/my-sisters-heart/
5 months ago
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Mike Lewis
The Atlantic
6 months ago
“To be deported by Trump, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough,”
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag
To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.
https://bit.ly/4id5fYl
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Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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Strickland, Altman, and the Making of a Parallel Church
Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronit...
https://wherepeteris.com/strickland-altman-and-the-making-of-a-parallel-church/
7 months ago
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Everything is bonkers here in the Catholic Church in the United States.
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Strickland, Altman, and the Making of a Parallel Church
Recent videos uploaded to YouTube have revealed that on March 20, 2025, Bishop Joseph Strickland, emeritus of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, celebrated a public Mass at Mary, Mother of the Light Maronit...
https://wherepeteris.com/strickland-altman-and-the-making-of-a-parallel-church/
7 months ago
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Heidi Pohl
7 months ago
My brother, Dr. Joseph Stuart, was on Paul Fahey's podcast, a discussion about Pope Francis' letter on the renewal of the study of Church history
www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-...
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16: Joseph Stuart - Renewing Church History
In today’s episode, I had a great conversation with Dr.
https://www.catholicthirdspace.com/p/16-joseph-stuart-renewing-church?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=551980&post_id=159832809&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=5mjv3&triedRedirect=true
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What once was unthinkable—publicly accusing the pope of heresy or implying he is a danger to the faith—is now routine in certain circles. For those of us who were once in these circles, this is a tragedy.
wherepeteris.com/when-the-sca...
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When the Scales Fell from Our Conservative Catholic Eyes
There’s something that many right-wing Catholics—especially those who fiercely oppose Pope Francis—don’t seem to understand about people like me: we were once part of their world. We admired the same ...
https://wherepeteris.com/when-the-scales-fell-from-our-conservative-catholic-eyes/
7 months ago
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Max Kuzma
7 months ago
Bishop Barron attended Trump’s State of the Union and called it a “liturgy of democracy” in a dangerous attempt to erase the distinction between church and state. My thoughts:
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No Country for Kings
Bishop Barron & the Catholic Performance of Masculinity
https://open.substack.com/pub/maxwellkuzma/p/no-country-for-kings?r=2ja4k7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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I was reminded this morning of this article I wrote about the role of emotion and sentiment in faith and liturgy.
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For a more Sentimental Church
“They were men of genius, but they had no perception of what is just and lawful in music; raging like Bacchanals and possessed with inordinate delights-mingling lamentations with hymns, and paeans wit...
https://wherepeteris.com/for-a-more-sentimental-church/
7 months ago
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This nonsense needs to be exposed. Ripperger, Sungenis and friends are peddling fairy tales and science fiction, trying to pass it off as Catholicism. They are corrupting the innocent.
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Father Chad Ripperger versus the Little Gray Men
Due to “unforeseen circumstances,” an event scheduled for later this month in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee featuring the controversial celebrity exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger was forced to change venues...
https://wherepeteris.com/father-chad-ripperger-versus-the-little-gray-men/
7 months ago
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I am beginning to fear that many of the anonymous groypers, trolls, trads, and integrists who post on the "X" website suffer from a paucity of manners, discernment, and critical thinking skills.
8 months ago
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Dawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, STD
8 months ago
I am grateful to have a new essay in
@wherepeteris.com
. Thanks to
@mfjlewis.bsky.social
for giving me the opportunity to tell "A Tale of Two Converts." One of them, Julia Greeley, is featured in my upcoming book from
@loyolapress.bsky.social
, The Sacred Heart.
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A Tale of Two Converts
On June 9, 1918, in a Denver chapel, thousands of people filed silently past the body of the first American Catholic laywoman ever granted the privilege of lying in state. This extraordinary woman was...
https://wherepeteris.com/a-tale-of-two-converts/
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Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso issues a decree on a rogue traditionalist priest, along with some important doctrinal reminders about unity in the Catholic Church.
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Decree on Illicit Chapel Jan_27_25
January 27th, 2025
https://www.elpasodiocese.org/decree-on-illicit-chapel-jan_27_25.html
9 months ago
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The December 9 obligation confusion is no more.
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Vatican fixes "Monday Holy Day" mess
Cardinal Roche injects some common sense into US liturgical calendar
https://mikelewis.substack.com/p/vatican-fixes-monday-holy-day-mess
9 months ago
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Carmelite Quotes
9 months ago
Thousands of innocents who came legally under Humanitarian Parole are caught up in this manhunt.
#immigration
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Trump’s First Week Sends Shudders Through Immigrant Churches and Ministries - Christianity Today
The president plunged communities into fear, upended life for thousands of refugees, and moved to stop charities from helping immigrants already in the US.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/01/trumps-first-week-sends-shudders-through-immigrant-churches-and-ministries/
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The December 9 obligation confusion is no more.
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Vatican fixes "Monday Holy Day" mess
Cardinal Roche injects some common sense into US liturgical calendar
https://mikelewis.substack.com/p/vatican-fixes-monday-holy-day-mess
9 months ago
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Reverence for the inviolable, intrinsic, and infinite dignity of every person must be the foundation of all public policy.
9 months ago
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A warrant has been filed for the arrest of the celebrity exorcist priest Fr Carlos Martins, CC, on a misdemeanor charge of battery following a November incident at an Illinois parish.
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Celebrity Exorcist Fr. Carlos Martins Charged with Battery
Updated 24 Jan 2024 3:04pm EST According to an article published on January 23 by Felix Sarver for the Shaw Local News Network, a warrant for the arrest of the Rev. Carlos Martins, CC, on a misdemeano...
https://wherepeteris.com/celebrity-exorcist-fr-carlos-martins-charged-with-battery/
9 months ago
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Dawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, STD
9 months ago
Sweet post from
@wherepeteris.com
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Luce: The One Who Cares
A middle school student shares her thoughts about Luce to celebrate the one month mark of Jubilee Year 2025.
https://wherepeteris.com/luce-the-one-who-cares/
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A warrant has been filed for the arrest of the celebrity exorcist priest Fr Carlos Martins, CC, on a misdemeanor charge of battery following a November incident at an Illinois parish.
wherepeteris.com/celebrity-ex...
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Celebrity Exorcist Fr. Carlos Martins Charged with Battery
Updated 24 Jan 2024 3:04pm EST According to an article published on January 23 by Felix Sarver for the Shaw Local News Network, a warrant for the arrest of the Rev. Carlos Martins, CC, on a misdemeano...
https://wherepeteris.com/celebrity-exorcist-fr-carlos-martins-charged-with-battery/
9 months ago
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"Let us think of when slavery was allowed, or when the death penalty—which is unjustifiable, and is in no way the solution to the violence that can strike down innocent people, but instead poisons societies—raised no problem. ...
9 months ago
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Oli R.
9 months ago
First Pope to write an autobiography since the late 1300s, the first to publish it during his lifetime.
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Pope Francis’ Autobiography, Long in the Making, Arrives in Bookstores
The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights into his papacy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/world/europe/pope-francis-autobiography.html
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The kids are not all right. Fr Chad Ripperger (a popular celebrity exorcist, radical traditionalist, and conspiracy theorist) is scheduled to speak at next month's
#Mount2000
youth retreat in Emmitsburg.
www.facebook.com/Mount2000/po...
9 months ago
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How can faith and science come together to address the complexities of mental health? In the first of a four-part series, Dr. Ariane Sroubek explores the Church's relationship with psychology and the challenges of integrating these perspectives.
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The Science of Psychology and a Skeptical Church
(This article is the first in a four-part series on Mental Health written by Ariane Sroubek, PsyD. Ariane holds a doctorate in School and Child Clinical Psychology as well as a bachelor’s degree in bi...
https://wherepeteris.com/the-science-of-psychology-and-a-skeptical-church/
9 months ago
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"Gone in a day were the fruit trees he planted in the front yard, the canyon full of wild anise and chaparral his grandchildren would excitedly explore when they came to visit, the weathered basketball hoop, the basil, the lemon-scented Eucalyptus leaves."
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In Pacific Palisades, paradise lost
I have trouble talking about the loss without tearing up, as if the smoke and ash from Los Angeles traveled across country to find me. My in-laws were French immigrants to California, proud Americans,...
https://www.osvnews.com/2025/01/10/in-pacific-palisades-paradise-lost/
9 months ago
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Colleen Dulle
10 months ago
Our "Christmas break" podcast episode, on the history of Jubilee years and what makes
#Jubilee2025
different (Spoiler: Gerry is not as much of a
#Luce
fan as I am)
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
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The Jubilee year: Its history and what’s planned for 2025
In this episode of Inside the Vatican, Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the 2025 Jubilee Year, beginning on Christmas Eve 2024 and ending in January 2026.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/12/26/jubilee-year-2025-vatican-rome-249596
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Colleen Dulle
9 months ago
Thanks for the shoutout,
@mfjlewis.bsky.social
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The Vatican's first woman prefect (and more on McElroy to DC)
Pope Francis’s appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman to lead a major Vatican office marks a historic milestone in the Catholic Church’s governance. As the new prefect of the Dicast...
https://wherepeteris.com/the-vaticans-first-woman-prefect-and-more-on-mcelroy-to-dc/
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The kids are not all right. Fr Chad Ripperger (a popular celebrity exorcist, radical traditionalist, and conspiracy theorist) is scheduled to speak at next month's
#Mount2000
youth retreat in Emmitsburg.
www.facebook.com/Mount2000/po...
9 months ago
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Okay. Checking back in here.
9 months ago
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Fuller context on that quote from Cardinal Fernández about salvation. It's quite clear that he's a "hopeful universalist" - which is - in my opinion - the most orthodox position (we should not hope that anyone is in hell).
10 months ago
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Bishop Joseph Strickland’s public adoption of the Lefebvrist ideology, although tragic, is just another data point in the madness that has beset the once-respectable world of conservative Catholicism.
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Non Serviam and the Aftermath
Last month I traveled to Baltimore to cover the USCCB’s Fall Plenary Assembly. There were some worthwhile speeches and discussions at the meeting, as well as some interesting results in a couple of el...
https://wherepeteris.com/non-serviam-and-the-aftermath/
10 months ago
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Dawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, STD
10 months ago
An outstanding article that sums up currents that have affected my life and the lives of many other Catholics who have remained with the Holy Father while yesterday's "orthodox" faithful rage around him.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Javier Plumey
10 months ago
You can’t call yourself “Pro-Life” if you’re not on board with this.
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Steven Hassan PhD
10 months ago
Check out
bitemodel.com
for free, anonymous 40 question survey to test any group or relationship!
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"Any healthy group or relationship can hold up to scrutiny"
https://bitemodel.com
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New Bishop named in Tyler. Dallas auxiliary Bishop Gregory Kelly. Episcopal motto "Take Courage." He'll need it.
dallascatholic.org/our-bishops/...
10 months ago
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Bishop Joseph Strickland’s public adoption of the Lefebvrist ideology, although tragic, is just another data point in the madness that has beset the once-respectable world of conservative Catholicism.
wherepeteris.com/non-serviam-...
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Non Serviam and the Aftermath
Last month I traveled to Baltimore to cover the USCCB’s Fall Plenary Assembly. There were some worthwhile speeches and discussions at the meeting, as well as some interesting results in a couple of el...
https://wherepeteris.com/non-serviam-and-the-aftermath/
10 months ago
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An analysis of what's at stake for Catholics who reject the 2018 development of Church teaching on the death penalty.
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Pro-Death Penalty Catholics (Part 2): Fear of Rupture
In my last article, I described how the Church’s opposition to the death penalty, formalized in Pope Francis’s 2018 revision of the Catechism, reflects more than just a momentary shift; it is the culm...
https://wherepeteris.com/pro-death-penalty-catholics-part-2-fear-of-rupture/
10 months ago
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My little Lucy turns 8 today, which means it's St Lucy's Feast day and special prayers for my eyesight and glaucoma treatment!
wherepeteris.com/a-blind-eye/
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A blind eye
“I ask the Lord to renew in each one of you the gift of faith, that your spirit may be for us ever the light of God, the light of love, which gives meaning to your life, illuminates it, gives...
https://wherepeteris.com/a-blind-eye/
10 months ago
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Catholic News World
10 months ago
#PopeFrancis
says Saint Lucy as
#Women
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#Gospel
are "disciples of Jesus" and "witnesses of an intelligence and a love"
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2024/12/pope...
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Pope Francis says Saint Lucy as Women of the Gospel are "disciples of Jesus" and "witnesses of an intelligence and a love"
Catholic Church, Catholic News World, Vatican, Pope Francis, Breaking, Pope News, c na, Catholic Headlines,
https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2024/12/pope-francis-says-saint-lucy-as-women.html
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Leslye Colvin
10 months ago
As a Catholic & Alabama native, I thank
@dawnofmercy.bsky.social
@mfjlewis.bsky.social
@wherepeteris.com
. After being defamed by powerful Catholic figures in Alabama, they document the truth of their lived experiences in what Pope Francis calls a “change of era”.
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Defamed by “The Global Catholic Network”
[Editor’s note: Where Peter Is is committed to providing faithful, challenging, and thought-provoking content while defending the integrity of Catholic teaching and tradition. The following account by...
https://wherepeteris.com/defamed-by-the-global-catholic-network/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR34d0b8Qvtj6eQeaVIDBuZ3NM8C10GSI5ufUAAsA6Enn12wET-wr7v4jrw_aem_H0xJwsHp5JbiPBfJabjAaQ
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So this math problem keeps showing up on my FB feed - it has thousands of responses (including mine) but I can't find the official answer anywhere in the thread. What do you think the answer is? (I'll share mine after others post theirs.)
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