Ansgar Holmberg, C.S.J., 86, didn’t paint her O Antiphon series to edify or instruct anyone. They were meant only for herself.
Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer, regular contributor to The Catholic Weekly and author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 children.
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Election Day’s chaos and long lines brought me hope for my country—and my church
Whatever comes next may be ugly. We all know this. But for reasons I can hardly explain, I felt buoyed up the morning after the election.
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I didn’t watch the Amy Coney Barrett hearings—and I’m a better Christian for it.
When I am always angry and distraught, it is harder to be a good wife, mother, writer, Christian. The full throttle news life makes me a worse person, and it’s voluntary.
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Interview: Father Matt Hood, the priest who discovered he was invalidly baptized (and ordained)
Simcha Fischer speaks with Father Matthew Hood, the priest from Utica, Mich., who recently learned his baptism as an infant had been invalid.
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Our plans for school this year will probably fail—and that’s O.K.
Remote, in-person or home schooling: They are all impossible. So why worry about failing?
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When a Catholic leaves seminary or religious life
It’s O.K. if continuing to follow God’s voice doesn’t mean you end up where you think you’re going to end up.
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Only in death can we truly come home
Everything else, even their names, has been taken away from the dead, and they are reserving for their family a spot with the one thing we really need: a view of the mountain.
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Pro-lifers betrayed their cause by treating Norma McCorvey, ‘Jane Roe,’ as less than fully human
She was used and abused as a child, and she continues to be used and abused by both pro-lifers and pro-choicers who want her to a weapon against the other side.
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‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’: A searing but flawed film about abortion
For all its deft crafting of real-life detail, Eliza Hittman’s film never admits any reality besides abortion as saving grace.
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The good and beautiful things I’ve seen amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is good to know that people are still people, still willing to visit each other, still willing to bring hope, still willing to share what they have.