My father also deeply used his Protestantism to our advantage on Sundays because once my sister and I were old enough that we didn’t need both parents managing us quite as much he would dip out of mass during communion and get the car so quote “we can get to the fried chicken before the Methodists”

We will never know what they would have done with the name Margaret because I was a High Risk Pregnancy and their OB told them hey maybe don’t have any more babies but I like to think it would have been an equally obnoxious double first name

2) my mother had a grand vision of having three daughters named Mary Elizabeth, Mary Katherine, and Mary Margaret. They had my sister, who is Mary Elizabeth, and then three years later had me and my dad had to tell my mom “I love you but I cannot have multiple children named Mary it’s too Catholic”

1) my dad considered converting to Catholicism when he married my mom, and came very close but ultimately chose not to. Why?
“Well I just couldn’t get over some guy in a funny hat in Italy telling me what to do”

This is understandable for a lot of reasons, including the fact that the term “gender ideology” has deep roots in JPII’s Theology of the Body and cannot be divorced from that theological background

Being trusted by CFI is not the defense he thinks it is

Plenty to criticize about the Church’s and the USCCB’s approach to gender, GAC, and healthcare we don’t need to go “hahaha dress = girl”

I continue to absolutely DREAD this book and the damage it’s going to do, I feel like I’ve been trying to come up with a plan to counter it since it was announced