The archdiocese is committed to take every effort to safeguard children.

Jim Goodness, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark, here

What a fucking liar.

You mean Archbishop Myers, who allowed this child abuser to actively minister, was taking every effort to safeguard children? You mean Monsignor John Doran, who agreed to not allow Rev. Fugee to minister to minors, was taking every effort to safeguard children? You mean the Newark Review Board, who had at their disposal   Rev. Fugee’s confession, courtroom proceedings, and victim testimony yet still allowed him to be an active minister, were taking every effort to safeguard children? You mean you, Jim Goodness, who defended Rev. Fugee’s actions and said he did nothing wrong, were just taking every effort to safeguard children?

This is offensive to Catholics everywhere. More and more the laity are gaining education on how the hierarchy works, and blatantly lying and pretending you’re innocent isn’t calming the masses anymore. We know better. We’re smarter than this.

O God, come to our assistance. O Lord, make haste to help us.

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25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25

1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you can’t happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment.

2. Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and don’t worry about if they’re going to call you afterward.

3. Minimize your passivity.

4. Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someone’s day.

5. Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.

6. Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Bachelor’s Degree. Debt is hell, and things didn’t pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isn’t the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this mess out, I think, probably; the point is you’re not worth less just because there hasn’t been an immediate pay off for going to school. Be patient, work with what you have, and remember that a lot of us are in this together.

7. If you’re employed in any capacity, open a savings account. You never know when you might be unemployed or in desperate need of getting away for a few days. Even $10 a week is $520 more a year than you would’ve had otherwise.

8. Make a habit of going outside, enjoying the light, relearning your friends, forgetting the internet.

9. Go on a 4-day, brunch-fueled bender.

10. Start a relationship with your crush by telling them that you want them. Directly. Like, look them in the face and say it to them. Say, I want you. I want to be with you.

11. Learn to say ‘no’ — to yourself. Don’t keep wearing high heels if you hate them; don’t keep smoking if you’re disgusted by the way you smell the morning after; stop wasting entire days on your couch if you’re going to complain about missing the sun.

12. Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be here forever; you definitely won’t be.

13. Find a hobby that makes being alone feel lovely and empowering and like something to look forward to.

14. Think you know yourself until you meet someone better than you.

15. Forget who you are, what your priorities are, and how a person should be.

16. Identify your fears and instead of letting them dictate your every move, find and talk to people who have overcome them. Don’t settle for experiencing .000002% of what the world has to offer because you’re afraid of getting on a plane.

17. Make a habit of cleaning up and letting go. Just because it fit at one point doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever — whether ‘it’ is your favorite pair of pants or your ex.

18. Stop hating yourself.

19. Go out and watch that movie, read that book, listen to that band you already lied about watching, reading, listening to.

20. Take advantage of health insurance while you have it.

21. Make a habit of telling people how you feel, whether it means writing a gushing fan-girl email to someone whose work you love or telling your boss why you deserve a raise.

22. Date someone who says, “I love you” first.

23. Leave the country under the premise of “finding yourself.” This will be unsuccessful. Places do not change people. Instead, do a lot of solo drinking, read a lot of books, have sex in dirty hostels, and come home when you start to miss it.

24. Suck it up and buy a Macbook Pro.

25. Quit that job that’s making you miserable, end the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic, lose the friend whose sole purpose in life is making you feel like you’re perpetually on the verge of vomiting. You’re young, you’re resilient, there are other jobs and relationships and friends if you’re patient and open.

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5 years to go and i think i’ve achieved like two of these.

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taylorisadinosaur:

adashofdisney:

They best disney marriage proposal I’ve ever seen. Future husband you have a lot to live up to, and the bar has been set extremely high.  

Okay I literally just bawled my eyes out…

Ugh why am I crying??!!!

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kurtsbutt:

i just want to go to a coffee shop on a rainy day and order something nice and warm and have an attractive stranger around my age say “i’ll have one of those too, please” and for them to smile at me and introduce themselves and for us to slowly fall in love in a coffee shop but instead whenever i go to a coffee shop i find teenagers taking pictures of their orders with their iPhones and middle aged women wearing yoga pants 

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Teaching…

this wednesday I will be teaching my Newman Center’s Theology of the Body class on Homosexuality…. Its the one day of the year where I, the token queer, get to tell my “friends” how “wonderful” the Church’s teachings about my life are…. I am getting my voiced heard Which is nice for a change, and I get to raise awareness of proper language when talking about the issue and the queer identities that are not recognized by the Catholic Church. 

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