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.’”
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What Stephen Hawking and my mother taught me about suffering
My approach to the mystery of A.L.S. is a bit different than that of the famed physicist.
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How Eastern Orthodox’s ‘Forgiveness Sunday’ could save us from our Facebook feeds
On Forgiveness Sunday, we look for the best in the one we forgive and seek to give a charitable interpretation of the other’s intent.
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The Catholic Church must listen to the courageous voices of women
The women who spoke at this year’s Voices of Faith are exemplars of faith and courage.