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After a Heartbreak, the Haunting
For the first time in nine years, I'm learning to fight my demons on my own.
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I Have Some Regrets
Soon, it will be time for me to leave New York. This isn't how I thought I'd say goodbye.
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How Lil Nas X Challenges the Catholic Imagination
The video for "Call Me By Your Name" is theologically brilliant—Satan and all.
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Phillip Picardi
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That Time My Cat Almost Killed My Fiancé
And how the pandemic has helped them to sort their differences .
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Welcome to Religiously Blonde
Get in, losers, we're going to Harvard!
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Spoiler Alert: Harvard Was Very, Very Hard
Elle Woods may have deceived me, but I'm graduating anyway.
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30 Thoughts on Turning 30
Number 31: Do gay things!
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Saying Goodbye to the New York I Once Knew
Many of the places most pivotal to my life in New York have permanently closed during the pandemic.
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Phillip Picardi
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When All Else Fails, Go Back to School
AKA: How a gay witch, a Harvey Weinstein scandal, and a Tarot reading led me to Divinity School.
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A Catholic Abortion Doula on Reproductive Justice as a Religious Vocation
Kate Hoeting of Catholics for Choice talks about religion's role in the road after Roe.
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Phillip Picardi
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Today, We Graduate
Our diplomas are meant to be a promise for our futures. But what future is that, exactly?
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Phillip Picardi
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Living with Homesickness
Some thoughts on the soul.
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