Four editors on the official end of the Covid-19 pandemic, and to consider what lessons we might take with us into the future.
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What I’ll tell my children about how Covid-19 turned my young adulthood on its head
One day, Covid-19 will be a story, one that we package and deliver to people who never lived through it.
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My Corona Diary, by Thomas Carthusia
Writing this marginally insane diary was a reminder to me that, no matter what disasters strike us, and no matter what destruction they wreak, we can at least find ways to diminish their soul-destroying power. We can at least laugh.
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How my 3-year-old’s epiphany in a drug store shaped my view of the pandemic
Can something really be over if you can still feel it in your bones?
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What I’m Putting in My Covid Time Capsule
What will we hold onto from the pandemic? Perhaps the videos we watched and experiences we had, mostly virtual, in connecting with other people.
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There is no civil war in the Catholic Church
There is no civil war in the Catholic Church, there is only Almighty God sifting us like wheat. There is no schism ahead, only the proper ordering of us into the right places for the salvation of our souls.
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What convinced me that we need more women leading at the Vatican
I am usually not one to call for big changes or support radical ideas. If the church has worked this way for 2,000 years, I used to think, who are we to change it now?
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Tucker Carlson’s racist text message—and the painful confession it contains
The rest of Tucker Carlson’s racist text betrayed a self-confessional Tucker Carlson I can begin to identify with.
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My best advice for anyone struggling with prayer: Make a morning offering.
If anyone asked me what was the one thing they could do to start off on a better path spiritually, I would recommend resolving to make a morning offering.
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German Jesuit Peter Canisius is known as a saint of the Counter-Reformation. But he was much more than that.
St. Peter Canisius deserves remembrance as more than a mere embodiment of 16th-century Counter-Reformation thought.