Pete Holmes discovers a new meaning to Christ’s words “Go and do likewise,” not as a moralistic command, but as a call to an awakening, a conversion, the practice Catholic tradition calls the “imitation of Christ.”
Renée Darline Roden
Renée Roden is the author of Tantur: Seeking Christian Unity in a Divided City, due out in August 2025 with Liturgical Press. She lives at St. Martin de Porres Catholic Worker in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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In ‘Booksmart,’ these girls just want to belong
This motley crew of high school students want to live an authentic life. They want to be known, by themselves and by others.
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Review: In ‘Wild Nights with Emily’ love casts out fear
Dickinson is not a poet stunted by fear of living, but an eccentric hermit delighted by the world and delighting in her craft.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A skeptic learns to love Eucharistic adoration
This practice of prayer in front of a piece of bread seems foreign and superstitious. It seems inimical to the communal life the Eucharist is meant to provide.
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This Lent, I’m giving up swearing
Swearing can function as a shield against more honest emotions, a cool façade of indifference.