Given the religious and cultural significance of the quinceañera, why did I chose not to celebrate one for my own daughter?
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Martin Luther King Jr. and today’s road to Jericho
When we say we do not want to live in this time, we are acting more like the priest than like the Samaritan.
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Even as pope, my teacher Joseph Ratzinger always wrote back
My acquaintance with J.R. dates back to when I was a fourth-grade student in Bogenhausen, a suburb of Munich, in the early 1950s.
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This year, see the Easter candle through the eyes of an infant
Newness comes easily for infants, but a Lent practiced with intention provides newness for the rest of us.
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Easter and Passover have more in common than you think
There are deeper, underlying commonalities that join the two holidays.
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Beer and pretzels on Good Friday? It’s tradition.
Good Friday may be a somber day, but it does not necessarily have to be a perfectly sober one.
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The Triduum in your 20s: What Holy Week taught me about change
Our lives are a series of little Good Fridays, Holy Saturdays and Easter Sundays.
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Fighting homelessness on L.A.’s Skid Row with a Lenten fast
Sometimes Christians ask what they can do but often are not ready for the answers.
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“Where are the millennial Catholic activists?” We are right here.
If the face of Catholic activism today is the Baby Boomers, then millennial Catholics are certainly the body.
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I came out as a gay, Catholic priest on the Feast of the Annunciation
An angel whispered in my ear: “Fred, ‘Be not afraid.’”