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Continue reading →: When Prayer Isn’t a Substitute for SerotoninI’m a convert, wife of over fifteen years, and a mother of two small children who need snacks, socks, and sanctification before 8 a.m. I’ve also lived with anxiety and depression since childhood, and in 2014 I was diagnosed with…
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Continue reading →: On the Rapture, Superheroes, and SufferingDuring my conversion, the most difficult Catholic teaching for me to accept wasn’t the papacy, Marian dogmas, or natural family planning (although that was a big one!). It was the fact that the rapture isn’t real.
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Continue reading →: Being Catholic Made Me More DepressedWhen I converted to Catholicism in 2024, I really believed my problems would miraculously disappear. I thought the depression I’d carried since childhood would melt away. Jesus performed healing miracles in the first century. He could still do them today, right?
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Continue reading →: How Catholicism Ruined Music and Movies for MeI grew up in the 90s, which means I could MMMBop and teeny-bop with Olympic-level commitment. My mom tried to instill good Christian values, but behind closed doors, I performed choreographed routines to Britney, Christina, and Destiny’s Child like my eternal salvation depended on it…
