Show up for some awesome queer Latine BookTok gossip, stick around for the excellent #catholicgrandma content. Curl up with your beverage of choice and listen in as literary enthusiast and TikTok-er Lupita Aquino spills the tea about skipping out on catechism classes for the thrills of the mall, the trials and tribulations of celebrating your birthday on the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe (and sharing her name!), and what it means to sometimes feels like a Secret Catholic. 

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LUPITA'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OUR LISTENERS:

How Not To Drown In A Glass of Water

A Living Remedy

The People Who Report More Stress

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Trans Health Legal Fund

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Listen in as Steph and Anne catch up Catholicism in the News. Topics include limbo, the devil holding Jesus ransom, a song that cuts down on Purgatory time, the AI-generated papal puffer coat that launched a thousand tweets, diocese on the Moon, and Jesus’s DNA. Weirdly, this episode includes two references to the decidedly non-Catholic British Royal Family. 

Links:

The Catholic Church can never admit that something it taught for centuries was dumb

Ransom Theory of Salvation

Singing This Song on Holy Thursday Can Purify Your Soul (And Save You Time in Purgatory)

We Spoke To The Guy Who Created The Viral AI Image Of The Pope That Fooled The World

The Catholic Church Officially Has A Moon Bishop

Pope Francies has given King Charles III a poignant Coronation gift

Recommendations:

Good Omens

Cameron Esposito was a Eucharistic minister

Megan Markle planned her wedding in Catholic school

Dylan Mulvaney and Rosie O’Donnell talk Catholic Mass

The Big Door Prize

Jagged LIttle Pill 

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Anne and Steph chat with Dani, (she/they) a writer, illustrator, Costa Rican, femme lesbian, and devout catholic who spends most of her time reminding everybody of those last two facts. Dani runs the blog and subsequent store “And Her Saints”, which seeks to illustrate the holy in an affirming and inclusive way. Topics include accidentally denying the virgin Mary as a child (omglol so sorry Our Lady!), surviving a hellish Catholic education experience, and finding queer Catholic community through social media. The hosts also profess their undying love for Catholic grandmas. Again.

Links:

instagram: @andhersaints

twitter: @idkwhosdani 

tumblr: and-her-saints 

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Beyond the green beer and corned beef, what is the actual deal with Saint Patrick?  Grab a pint of Guinness and listen in as Anne and Steph learn the truth (maybe?) about shamrocks, banished snakes, and the true origins of corned beef of St. Paddy's Day.  There’s also some deer-related pagan-esque magicky stuff which they totally did not expect. #themoreyouknow 🌈 🍀🦌

Links:

Rabbi & 11-year-old son testify against anti-trans legislation

Francis on his BS about “idiolotical colonization” and transgender identity

Denver-area Catholic women say priest denied them Communion over rainbow masks

The Onion’s Pope Review

Saint Patrick Myths Debunked

More Saint Patrick Stuff

Divesting from Whiteness: The Irish & St. Patrick’s Day

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As #transdayofvisibility approaches, we are honored to share our conversation with @comebacktocare founder Nat Vikitsreth, a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation who supports social justice curious parents to practice social justice in their parenting while re-parenting their inner child. Listen in as Nat talks about what it was like attending an all boys' #catholicschool as a Catholic-Buddhist trans kid growing up in Thailand. Highlights include altar boy Spice Girl fashion shows and secret highschool romances. 🔥💙💗💙🔥

A little more about Nat:

Nat is a graduate of and faculty instructor with the Erikson Institute’s Social Work and Child Development Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 2021, she received the Zero to Three Award for Emerging Leadership where she was nationally recognized for her innovative work at Come Back to Care. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal and an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them. 

Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and mental health support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). Her advocacy areas include economic justice, intergenerational healing justice, disability justice, and trans rights. 

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Anne quizzes Stephanie on Ash Wednesday facts. Spoiler alert: as far as Catholic stuff goes, this may be the most loosey goosey day of the liturgical year! The hosts also talk Catholic toxic masculinity (gross) and about how the Sisters of Mercy are actually kind of rad when it comes to social justice stuff. Sidebars include 80’s Ballroom drag culture and recreational squirrel feeding.

LINKS

• Pope Francis’s Ash Wednesday Homily
• Catholic Bishop Shot and Killed in Los Angeles Home
•  Lentformen.com (???!!?)
• World’s Oldest Benedictine Nun, West Ridge’s Sister Vivian Ivantic, Dies At 109
• The Sisters of Mercy are trying to stop the Willow project….and doing other important work!

Recommendations:

• Pose
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff

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Learn more about the Women’s Ordination Conference’s Lucile Murray Durkin Scholarship For Women Discerning Priestly Ordination

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Steph and Anne engage in a much needed catch-up session on ***Catholicism In The News*****. College students are sharing dorms with nuns. The FBI is targeting Catholics (but in a needed way). Francis extolls the virtues of....flipping the bird (?!??!). The hosts know an embarrassing number of lyrics to Billy Joel’s “Only The Good Die Young.”

LINKS

• Neumann University needed housing. A local convent had space. Now, nuns and students share a 'dorm’
• The FBI has their eye on radical traditionalist Catholics
• Pope Francis Briefly Gave the Middle Finger His Blessing in Since-Deleted Tweet
• A nun and a monk fell in love, quit their monastic lives and got married
• Pope warns Vatican staff an 'elegant demon' lurks among them
• Former teacher says wrongful termination due to sexual orientation; Archdiocese of Denver says she broke contract

Recommendations:

• “Bad Catholic” by the Metzingers
• Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel
• Mike Birbiglia’s podcast Working It Out with guest Jimmy Fallon 
• Abby Wambach’s commencement speech at Loyola Marymount. 
• We’re Here

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This week we bring you something a little different: a story Anne recently performed live at A Very Serious Gallery in Chicago. Listen in as Anne grapples with the question of whether you really can’t go home again. (Related: Are the Bill Swerski’s Superfans of early ‘90’s SNL fame Catholic?  Discuss.  Write in and tell us.  Anne has thoughts.)

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Anne and Stephanie have the pleasure of sitting down with Abby Rampone of Left Catholic. Abby has lived at two Catholic Worker houses and the Women’s Interfaith Residency Program at Union Theological Seminary. She currently lives at the Fireplace Community, an intentional community on the south side of Chicago, and works as a Ministry Coordinator at DePaul University. Abby and Tess Gallagher Clancy are the co-creators of Left Catholic, a zine which draws on a variety of traditions to articulate a people-centered, anti-capitalist vision of the Catholic left. Their first issue includes voices from the Catholic Worker movement, anti-capitalist art, poetry, theology, ecclesiology, and more. 

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Many thanks to listeners who shared their stories! The hosts enjoy the heck out of your funny stories about growing up Catholic, from altar server mishaps to altercations with nuns to giggling and church. Additionally, Stephanie has some intel on a rather mysterious calendar of dreamboat priests, while Anne ponders Catholicism as she watches too much TV. This episode contains a Megan Markle reference.

LINKS

A history of Christmas in America

Anti-abortion US priest Frank Pavone defrocked by Vatican

“Hot Priests” calendar sends hearts racing in rome

The Pope has revealed he has a resignation note to use if his health impedes his work

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