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		<title>Speaking of the Devil, and Aliens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aliens]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The talk on social media has been about demons, and aliens. We all know that, due to my upbringing in the Charismatic Renewal, talk of demons makes me twitchy. But this particular discourse stopped being frightening and went all the way over into broad comedy. It seems that there was a “celebrity exorcist,” two words [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Name of the Rule is Compassion</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compassion]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Willow the cat lives under the porch. I pretend not to know she is there. I can’t possibly afford another cat. I really can’t even afford Charlie the traumatized cat who came to live with me last April. Technically, this house is not even supposed to have a cat, but the landlord smiled when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Orange Juice, Neighbors, and Vocation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neighbors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orange juice]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was just sitting down to write when there was a knock at the door. It was The Princess, in yet another ballet tutu and mismatched Crocs. “I’ll bet you’d like a Popsicle again,” I said. “No,” she said, grinning. “I want orange juice.” We did happen to have some orange juice. I fetched her [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On the Death of Joe Negri</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[  I saw on the news that Joe Negri had died. I wasn’t exactly surprised. He was nearly a hundred years old, after all. It’s surprising that he’d lived that long. Still, I was terribly sad. I’ve written so many times about how much Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood affected me, as a child. Some of my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pope Leo is Talking, and the World is Listening</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 02:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[American Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Leo]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  I am reading “Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding The Human Person In The Time Of Artificial Intelligence,” Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical. It’s very good. I am reading extremely slowly because I have other deadlines this week, but I hope to talk to you about it in a few days. Just now, I only want [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>To be Catholic is to be Yourself</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catholic guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mother]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Wednesday Was the Eighth Grade Graduation. Adrienne has done wonderfully. Once I pulled the plug on homeschooling and put her in a public school, she began to shine. She taught herself ways to get around the dyslexia that astonished me, and quickly became the fastest reader with the best comprehension in class. She was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>To Worship, And Doubt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 03:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[deconstruction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doubt]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew: The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On Sacraments, Lemonade, and the Ascension of the Lord</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 03:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[lemonade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ptsd]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[  Nothing went the way that it should, and that was a mercy. It all began with the catalytic converter– or, rather, the lack of a catalytic converter. Jimmy was curious as to why my car still ran so loudly and smelled so terrible after the engine replacement last year. He examined the underside of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Princess of LaBelle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 03:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Appalachia]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[    The Princess first came to LaBelle last summer, and stayed for months. She was a tiny little girl, barely bigger than a toddler, the granddaughter of a friendly man who lives down the street. Every single day she would wear some emblem of royalty with her clothing: a plastic crown from the dollar [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The River, the Kingdom, the Cliff</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Pezzulo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 03:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pottery Addition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[river]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shale cliff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steubenville]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I met a new friend at nearly midnight, last weekend. Michael had just gotten off a late shift. It was quite dark and chilly. One of his regular customers was still in the restaurant as he ate his dinner after a twelve hour shift. The customer was on the phone, arguing loudly with a cab [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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