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		<title>Your Life Is Worthwhile</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Story time. Earlier this year I put out a prayer request for a thing that was purely for fun. Because I like to have fun. That was the sole stated reason. Any side benefits could be had some other way. Why pretend at nobler motivations? Fact check: Prayer answered. Double fact check: Prayer over-answered. After I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Catholic is Wake Up Dead Man?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[No Spoilers] Last night I watched Wake Up Dead Man, the latest in the Knives Out series. Two of the leading characters are Catholic priests, and the murder takes place in their parish. Furthermore, the plot is 100% centered around questions of faith — it’s not a generic mystery with Catholic-flavor settings, it’s a mystery that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does Location Tracking Make Your Children Safer?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[big brother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[binge drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital privacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital surveillance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone location sharing]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a young adult, my sister was stalked by a serial rapist. Her husband worked nights, and her stalker figured out her husband’s work schedule and broke in through their bedroom window in the middle of the night when he knew she would be alone. What saved her was the only tool that actually works, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Beat Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz/2025/07/how-to-beat-summer-seasonal-affective-disorder/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 18:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Disability & Chronic Illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's All Catholic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to be a nicer person]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[At The Atlantic, “American Summers are Starting to Feel Like Winter” reports with alarm and befuddlement on the summer variant of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Understandable, if you are new to the thing. I am not new to the thing. I am, however, grateful it is finally getting on the public health radar, because summer-depression is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Your Clergy Just Don&#8217;t Give A Crap</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Craziness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suffering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celiac disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clericalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disability access]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week’s topic is brought to us by the archbishop of Toulouse, France, who has just promoted a convicted rapist to archdiocesan chancellor. One of the best things I ever did was follow a bunch of normal-person priests on social media, so that when bishops pull despicable stunts like this, I can immediately see the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why MAiD Is An Elitist Insult</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week it struck me just how deeply offensive is the term “Medical Aid in Dying” (MAiD) as a euphemism for assisted suicide. Thursday evening I sat with my husband’s grandmother, praying silently beside her as she lay sleeping, her face beautiful as ever in the golden evening sunlight in her wood-paneled den. She would [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Medical Gaslighting and Assisted Suicide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have a playlist called “Medical Gaslighting” that is for unwinding after particularly stupid doctors’ appointments. In 2021 when my brain went mostly-AWOL for a few months, we didn’t even bother going to the doctor — the spouse and I went straight to planning for end-of-life. Why would we do this? Because we had long [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Misogynist Clericalism Strikes Again</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 15:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Craziness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facepalm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stick that Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ableism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chapel veil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[discrimination against women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnocentric bigotry]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The new bishop of Charlotte (NC) is under fire from, well, everybody for his recent attempt to micromanage a bazillion legitimate options for the Catholic liturgy. Some of the proposed mandates are just bizarre, such as banning the ringing bells at the start of Mass. Others are downright discriminatory: Prohibiting “quiet” or “low” Masses makes [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Relationship Hacks With Your Deceased Loved Ones</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz/2025/05/relationship-hacks-with-your-deceased-loved-ones/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 17:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Catholic Q&A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life after death]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Regardless of whether a loved one dies early and unexpectedly or passes away after a long life and with considerable forewarning, we the bereaved are often left with unfinished relationship threads. Some of the most common longings are: “I never got to say . . .” “I never apologized . . .” “I wish my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What&#8217;s in the Encyclical that Inspired Pope Leo&#8217;s Name?</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz/2025/05/whats-in-the-encyclical-that-inspired-pope-leos-name/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer Fitz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pope Leo XIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property ownership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was thrilled to see that Pope Leo XIV is indeed a Rerum Novarum guy, which I’ll explain in a sec but first here are his own words, from his May 10th address to the College of Cardinals: . . . I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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