Jennifer Fitz

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."

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A Month of Good Things Quick update & open combox for prayer requests

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.

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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.

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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.

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...

If you don't print out the whole thing w/ the footnotes, stash it in a manilla folder for future consultation just-in-case, and every 5-10 years debate whether you still need it and decide it would be wasteful to throw it away because then you might have to print it again . . . have you even lived?

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.

This is the content I am here for.

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?!

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.

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]

Why we have the idea that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, and why most scholars today say she wasn’t

These guys have been throwing random people into gulags without a second thought but they've suddenly rediscovered the concept of presumption of innocence

Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education

"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...

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

A small ginger cat inside a decorated cardboard box with 'psychiatric help' on it, and 'cure' on one side, and 'get worse' on the other.

A small ginger cat inside a decorated cardboard box. It reads 'Doctors entrance.'

"Get worse." 🫠

📸 Mo Quirk

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...

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.

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"

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman with saddlebag on a black horse, facing forwards, in a rural environment

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

The work of Caroline Hodgson, aka Indigo Moth, cyanotype artist #WomensArt

Reddit post. Title: Restaurants shouldn't use AI for description Photo of an online menu. "Chicken Pops," with a picture of chicken nuggets. Description provided by the menu: small, itchy, blister-like bumps caussed by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood.

So close, AI. So close!

Contact For general reporting-related inquiries contact me at jack.jenkins[at]religionnews[dot].com . If you have a tip or want to leak me info,  the fastest way to reach me is via Signal...

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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We don't want you here in our country, so we are gonna imprison you here

"Ave Maria on the Lake" by Swiss/Italian painter Giovanni Segantini,1886.

Figs are Nature's way of saying: It's been so hot lately. Here, have some candy.

Photo of two realistic looking embroidered cats heads, one blackish, one white, proving out the top of pockets on a white shirt

Contemporary Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats #WomensArt

A small group of pelicans are in the water among small yellow flowers. A couple of feet above their heads, a great blue heron flies by

As I was photographing pelicans in the flowers, a great blue heron decided it wanted in the picture.

#birds #heron #pelicans #greatblueheron #flowers #photography #nature #wildlife #protectnature #EastCoastKin

For the summer between my junior and senior years of college, I did a volunteer program at a monastery of Benedictine sisters in Appalachia. When the feast of St. Benedict rolled around, of course it was a big deal and many guests were to come. (1/3)

When Your Clergy Just Don't Give A Crap Just as neglectful or abusive parents leave painful wounds on their physical children, neglectful or abusive clergy leave painful wounds on their spiritual children.

@patheos.com When your clergy are horrid:

"If it’s 2025 and you promote a convicted rapist to a prominent position of authority, you clearly just don’t care that this decision of yours will be heart-breaking to the faithful and scandalous to the entire world."

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Mr. Purrkins, black cat w/ a red collar with reflective paw prints on it (he is a Panthers fan, ofc), a old cat who is far too thin after a recent illness and he is leaning in close because someone needs to pay attention to the cat!

Perfect steak salad recipe for a hot summer day:

Take leftover chuck roast from fridge, finely dice approx 1/4 cup. Put in small bowl. Sit in sky chair. Hand a piece to the cat every time he puts his paw up.

-The Cat.