My grandmother, Dorothy Day, believed that to lose one’s faith was the greatest sadness.
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I’ve been a priest for 63 years. Celebrating Mass has never gotten old.
Celebrating Mass was wonderful the first time I did it 63 years ago. It is, if possible, even more wonderful today.
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My son’s gift of organ donation taught me death is not the last word.
Christopher’s death gave five people the chance to live.
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A Sorta Catholic’s Very Catholic Wedding
Turns out, like having a kid or climbing Mount Everest or doing anything worth doing, you can’t sorta get married.
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Father James Martin: Holy Saturday teaches Christians the right way to wait
We are called to the wait of the Christian, which is called hope.
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An unexpected Easter conversion on the Camino
I was the Jewish equivalent of a Christmas-and-Easter Christian. Then I met Jesus on the trail.
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“Set the world on fire”? Sorry, St. Ignatius never said that (or these other famous Jesuit quotes)
Among the saints, Ignatius Loyola is something of a “quote magnet.”
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Why is climate change a moral issue?
From 2017: Policies that fail to protect our planet are not only against Catholic teaching but are also immoral.
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Father Greg Boyle: I thought I could “save” gang members. I was wrong.
Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.
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Confessions of a Porn-Addicted Priest
How loneliness and self-deception led me to rock bottom, and how God’s grace saved me.