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🚨🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV – "There will be no change in Church doctrine on gays and trans people"

ここ観光地なのか 全く知らないかったな かなり甘そうだけど美味そう ファッジ？

So this is me admitting to envy publicly, but also just feeling sad for missing out on … something. Might delete. At our church, we have a policy of letting small groups handle ministries like baby showers and meal trains and such. The small group I attend didn’t forget me or anything. They gave me a small diaper shower at one of our meetings and set up a meal train for four meals after we got home from the hospital. But it does hurt to see other ladies who were pregnant at the same time as me getting full-on showers with registry gifts (we needed actual baby things again, and $$ is tighter than it was w our 3yo) where the whole church was invited. Just now, the sister of a new mama posted her meal train for the whole church to participate in and it had a solid fourteen meal slots. We went to church with our baby for the first time this week, and one of the leaders of the women’s ministry told me she didn’t even know I was pregnant. Just feels like you have to be popular to get more support, and if you don’t have an advocate or want to toot your own horn, you aren’t as valued as other women. So now I’m midnight-nursing-ugly-crying over here. Don’t mind me. Most ppl don’t. *end self-pity vent* P.S. I had this same feeling with my last baby - the shower situation was exactly the same (our gap then was 5 years, so we had even less baby stuff then). We had more financial wiggle room, but I struggled postpartum and really could have used a robust meal train.

Good Morning X fam. It’s 23 degrees in Michigan. I am not ok 😭 Coffee in hand ☕️ We’ve got this, right? 🥹

It strikes me as performative that so many of podcastistan identify as Catholic. It is a far more ritualistic denomination than most Protestant denominations (kneel, sign of the cross, etc), is perceived as more formal and refined, and is much more hierarchical. So the denomination choice mirrors the biases of the podcasters. (Edited to change performative to ritualistic because some online whiners got emotional over that word, refusing to look at the parenthetical to see what I meant by the word, because online people are insufferable whiners)