Category Archives: Community Life

Thomas weighs in on how to care for victims.

Posted on December 27, 2024 by Edamame
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Favourite One-liners Volume 7 (Coniston St Paul the Apostle Knights of Columbus edition)

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Edamame

“Welcome to the club.”-Pat Masson (when I was made a lector) “I don’t have a cell phone and I don’t use social media. I’m hanging up.”-Sandra Boyd (when I asked her to listen to what had happened re: Facebook posts, … Continue reading →

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Favourite One-liners Volume 6 (Financial coercive control edition)

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Edamame

John O’Brien, my sponsor: “You’re never going to work again!” Yelled at me over the phone when I called him after leaving Peterborough. I called to let him know what happened and got an earful about how I had told … Continue reading →

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Favourite One-liners Volume 5 (The coincidences, innuendos & pastoral amateur psychoanalysis edition)

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Edamame

I believe with my entire being that the priests and staff deliberately used innuendos to frustrate me, leading to anxiety, confusion, helplessness and anger. All of these emotions lead to trauma, as Arthur Henry told me. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

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Favourite One-liners Volume 4 (Privacy edition)

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Edamame

“What do you need privacy for if you’re not doing anything wrong?”–Mr Brookes, Eucharistic Minister from St Alphonsus Parish, Principal of the Parish Elementary SchoolI had met Mr Brooks at Adoration and so when I started to think there had … Continue reading →

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Favourite One-liners Volume 3.5 (Devrereau edition)

Posted on January 1, 2024 by Edamame

We baptize people and they’re gone in a year. No one likes you. Um, and, oh yeah … Jesus is in the Eucharist. (dripping with sarcasm, his concluding comment in a phone call in early 2018, with an eye roll … Continue reading →

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Favourite One-liners Volume 2 (from 2015, 2016)

Posted on October 26, 2023 by Edamame

“So, you’re on a Spiritual Journey?!!”-Tom Lynch said this to me after I introduced myself to him, in the aisle at St Peter-in-Chains shortly after Mass one Saturday, right after he took over the parish. I think this might have … Continue reading →

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Favourite One-liners Volume 1 (talking to women)

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Edamame

“You talked to the priests? Why’d you do that? Priests are men!”-MT, a lady in Toronto from their local Catholic Women’s League “They get those jobs because they can smooth things over.”-HB, a religious sister explaining the types of priests … Continue reading →

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