Mary Pezzulo, Author at Catholic Herald

Mary Pezzulo

Being pro-life, like being Christian: It’s about what you do, not what you protest

July 09, 2021

A friend had taken a perilous road trip, to save a family in danger of being killed. My friend’s a pro-life activist, who stands outside abortion clinics and talks to people in a friendly way. If expectant mothers going into the clinic are willing, she befriends them, and she gets them what they need so

Sometimes You’ll Get Conned

May 19, 2021

Angel was in need, and friends were happy to help her, until they discovered that she wasn't in the need she'd said she was. If you practice the works of mercy, sometimes you're going to get conned. Practice them anyway.

I Was Very Young When I Came to the Franciscan University of Steubenville

April 19, 2021

She'd come to the Franciscan University young, naive, neurotic. She found comfort and counsel in two priests. One was later revealed to have protected a sexual predator, the other is now under indictment for raping a young woman he was counseling.

Always Dinner and Never Breakfast: How to Tell You’re in Narnia

March 10, 2021

Sixteen signs that you're in Narnia, that have nothing to do with heroism

The Homeless Can’t Come In Out of the Cold

January 04, 2021

The first Catholic church to be built on that spot was begun in 1830, constructed with the labor and funds of the working class children of Irish and German immigrants. Their descendants only come here for Mass. This is the normal ebb and flow of the tide of American cities. We come here as riffraff, live downtown in squalor, build a church, and eventually our descendants become people who want nothing to do with the squalid riffraff that live downtown.

The Blessed Mother Was a Perfect Mother, and Her Home Must Have Been a Zoo

December 28, 2020

Mary Pezzulo watched her share of Christmas dreck when she was a child. Most were harmless cheesy fun, but she didn't like the Little Drummer Boy.

That COVID-19 Comes to Appalachia

November 27, 2020

The cold came on so fast this year. We’d had a couple of cold snaps in northern Appalachia this fall; it even snowed a little on November first. But the real wintry cold came in with a wind storm this weekend. It went from t-shirt weather to near freezing in six hours, and this time

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