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Jennifer Fitz
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She writes, she reads, she plays outside. On a good day, anyhow.

Patheos.com/blogs/jenniferfitz for all things Catholic including spicy topics.

jenniferfitz.substack.com for very-Jesus evangelization & discipleship.

jenniferfitz.com for author bio.
Knights on Bikes: Drinking beer, riding motorcycles, and sharing the faith www.pillarcatholic.com/p/knights-on...
Knights on Bikes: Drinking beer, riding motorcycles, and sharing the faith
"The parishioners are seeing a bunch of ragtag bikers coming in and showing true reverence for our Lord."
www.pillarcatholic.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Quick personal update (all good) and an open combox for prayer requests and anything else you'd like to say. You are of course welcome to leave those words here as well.

A Month of Good Things open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
A Month of Good Things
Quick update & open combox for prayer requests
open.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Appreciate @theatlantic.com bringing attention to the reality of summer SAD, which can take you by surprise and hit hard. Up @patheos.com, some hot-climate strategies for staving it off. Spoiler alert: It requires waking up early.

www.patheos.com/blogs/jennif...
July 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
6AM: Email from supplier saying package is out for delivery.

9PM: See e-mail again, start hunting around the yard for where the package might have been cleverly hidden this time.

9:05 PM: Oh wait. This is the package I had shipped directly to Child's house. In another city.
July 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Appreciate @theatlantic.com bringing attention to the reality of summer SAD, which can take you by surprise and hit hard. Up @patheos.com, some hot-climate strategies for staving it off. Spoiler alert: It requires waking up early.

www.patheos.com/blogs/jennif...
July 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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1 Co 12,26 Si un membre souffre, tous les membres souffrent avec lui. #HG « D’où vient cette impression que l’Église a toujours mieux su faire avec les pécheurs qu’avec les victimes ? » (J.-B. Metz) La nomination du chancelier du diocèse de Toulouse est inacceptable et intenable.
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This is the content I am here for.
Not that this matters to anyone, but if you go on the ofmcap dot org website for English translations of the letters of the General Minister from 2012-2018, if you download the Word files they have my translator's notes footnotes in them, which do not appear in the pretty layout PDF files.
July 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Settling for healthier alternatives because Past Me foolishly chose not to purchase the item I am trying not to eat so much.

Past me! What were you thinking! Do we really want to live this way?!
July 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Hello all! I have 50 students registered for Greek 1. This is after a one year pause of intro Greek and reboot. I even have a WAIT LIST on one section. I have 116 students registered for Latin 1 across 5 sections, and a wait list of 14 for the most popular section. 24 students in Latin 2.
July 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Why we have the idea that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, and why most scholars today say she wasn’t
Mary Magdalene’s bad rap
[how the popular picture of Mary Magdalene as a penitent with a notoriously wanton sexual past developed—and what’s wrong with it]
greydanus.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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These guys have been throwing random people into gulags without a second thought but they've suddenly rediscovered the concept of presumption of innocence
"I would give everybody a caveat... or, that's a big word, but a warning... that just because somebody flew on a plane doesn't mean they're a dadgum pedophile." - Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee
July 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"for the liberal arts even when it attracts both students and major financial gifts. The tragedy of the contemporary academy is that even when traditional liberal learning clearly wins with students and donors, it loses with those in power." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Can’t wait for the upcoming movie All the President's Men 2: Oops We Fired All Objective Mainstream Reporters, This Epochal Story Actually Broken by a Substack Newsletter with a Comedic Name Rather Than a Prestigious News Org
July 17, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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"Get worse." 🫠

📸 Mo Quirk
July 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Franck Favre, l’ange gardien invisible des victimes d’abus sexuels

LE DOSSIER DU MARDI. Ce webmaster autodidacte a fonde en 2017 Coabuse, une plateforme qui met en relation les victimes de violences sexuelles. Un combat qu'il mene en refusant perpetuellement la lumiere.
Abus sexuels dans l’Église : Coabuse, la plateforme animée par Franck Favre, continue de libérer la parole des victimes
LE DOSSIER DU MARDI. Ce webmaster autodidacte a fondé en 2017 Coabuse, une plateforme qui met en relation les victimes de violences sexuelles. Un combat qu’il mène en refusant perpétuellement la lumiè...
www.lepoint.fr
April 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Lettre de Marie à Mgr de Kerimel.
"Par votre décision, se réveille le traumatisme d'avoir été trompée et trahie par un évêque qui a préféré servir avant tout les intérêts du prêtre qui m'a violée, plutôt que ceux de celle qu'il était censé protéger et secourir"
July 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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During the 1930s, the US "book women" of Kentucky, aka "packsaddle librarians," delivered books to remote and isolated communities in the Appalachian Mountains on horseback, riding in rain, snow or heat ...#WomensArt
July 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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The work of Caroline Hodgson, aka Indigo Moth, cyanotype artist #WomensArt
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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So close, AI. So close!
July 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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PSA: Have you heard of any ICE activity (or federal agents conducting immigration enforcement) happening on the grounds of a house of worship recently?

If so, please shoot it my way. Working on a story.

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July 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"Ave Maria on the Lake" by Swiss/Italian painter Giovanni Segantini,1886.
July 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Figs are Nature's way of saying: It's been so hot lately. Here, have some candy.
July 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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July 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Contemporary Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats #WomensArt
July 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM