The ever-present political talk of who is a good enough Catholic, or who should or should not receive Communion, hits close to home.
Valerie Schultz
Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of Till the Moon Be No More: The Grit and Grace of Growing Older. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
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Older Catholics: We need to talk about our sex lives
Sex with someone you know and love is deeply satisfying. At our age it may not be as athletic or as frequent, but it is fulfilling. It is affirming. And it is fun.
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Parenting adult children is hard. Prayer helped me see that my late parents are with me amid the challenges.
My parents never told me this, but parenting adults is hard.
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We deplore King Herod for his historic cruelty. But we are hardly any better.
The Holy Innocents of today continue to arrive and ask for our help. The way we welcome them or neglect them tells the story of who we are.
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After a divisive election, how do we answer the question ‘Who is my neighbor?’
Our task now, after we have defaced our neighbors’ political signs and posted undignified invectives online, is to figure out how to be more neighborly to one another.
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Families hurt by addiction know exactly the pain (and love) Joe Biden feels for his son, Hunter
Joe Biden made the perfect reply to a child who is sorry and shaky and demoralized and has no idea how to fix the damage caused: the recommitment to unconditional love.
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My father lost his Catholic faith—but God never left him
My father turned away from religion. While reading his old letters, I got a glimpse of some of his earlier experiences with the Church.
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How can we grieve with funerals on hold?
The coronavirus pandemic has both increased the frequency of deaths and constrained our ability to accompany the dying.
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Formerly incarcerated people: No, quarantine is not ‘just like prison’
Feeling restless because we cannot go out to eat or attend a concert hardly amounts to involuntary incarceration.
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Keeping your marriage vows under coronavirus quarantine
On the other side of the pandemic, we may see “corona babies” and “corona divorces.” May we also see the best in each other as we live our vows in the time of quarantine.