When my cell phone rings early one sunny fall morning, I reach for it groggily, see that the call is from my mother and know that whatever she is about to say will be heartbreaking. I am still in bed in my pajamas, and my mom tells me that Marian Elizabeth has been born. Everything else my mother sa
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Stumbling Onward: Learning from my third graders
There has been an ontological honesty to my stumbles, and they’ve usually landed me in places confidence never would have brought me.
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House of Corrections: Lessons from behind bars
I stayed on the phone with my husband as I drove up to the prison, its jagged stone facade stretching outward from a large, pointed, central turret. If it had not been nestled within the beautiful, rolling landscape of the lower Catskill mountains, I thought, this building would look much more omino
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Praying With Laurie: On grief, growth and letting go
After losing his daughter to cancer, Richard Wile embraces the kenosis, or self-emptying, of centering prayer.
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Unfinished Houses: Building the kingdom on God’s time
International service experiences teach volunteers to ‘build the kingdom on God’s time.’
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The Man With One Leg: An early encounter with death
Fay Vincent Jr. reflects on an early encounter with death.
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Growing in Faith
A mother reflects on her daughter’s experience of growing up black and Catholic.
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Saved by Grace: Striving for a more racially just and equal church
“I am asked how I can remain Catholic when the church I now serve in had ownership of a member of my family.” – Cora Marie Billings, R.S.M.
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Among Mercies: My grandmother, Catherine McAuley and me
Ty Barnes on the powerful witness of her Baptist grandmother and Sister Catherine McAuley.
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Ten tips for an Ignatian summer
Jesuit-inspired ideas for a spiritually rich season