Baptized in 2017 when I was 44 in Peterborough, Ontario – a small town where I always thought I’d settle. I had an interior conversion in 2014 through reading and reflection. Forced to leave my home in 2021 after a long-standing misunderstanding came to a head in late 2020; I’m just starting to put things together after a nightmare experience.
Clergy sexual abuse crisis, and the cover ups. Tridentine Latin Mass. Schism. Spiritual abuse. Truth and Reconciliation. The dehumanizing treatment of LGB Catholics. The second class status of women. Clericalism. Shunning and Shaming. No privacy. Surveillance capitalism. Bystander Syndrome. Tribalism. Mental health stigma in rural Ontario. Institutional Betrayal. Surveillance and loss of privacy. Somewhere in there I lost my career, my vocation, my home, my future, my ability to trust, my joy. Still traumatized, often triggered, living one day at a time.
New in 2024 and 2025: TLM is anti-Semitic? NAFO? Telegram intel intrigue? Italki vs Authentica & OSEB? Two priests in grey are out. Loss of mental privacy. Augustinians. Hardened ‘the Left’ and ‘the Right’ polarization.
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