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desire isn’t a dirty word

desire isn’t a dirty word

To yearn for something isn’t heretical - it’s fully human.

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John Roedel
Dec 03, 2024
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Once of my least favorite moments of the year was when my Catholic grade school required all of the students to go to confession. I have always found the act of sitting in a booth and breathing to life all of my mistakes to be a strange custom that we allowed to become normalized. This Sacrament always made me feel so …

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