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.
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Becoming a grandparent has helped me to see God’s creation through the eyes of a child
From the moment of her birth, my granddaughter has retaught me one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we learn at Confirmation: a sense of wonder and awe.
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This Earth Day, meet the artist making beautiful icons of God’s endangered creatures
Artist Angela Manno creates Byzantine Russian-style icons of threatened and endangered plant and animal species. And they are really extraordinary.
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Toward Something Greater: A tribute to a family matriarch who shunned the spotlight
We ended the day of my mother’s funeral looking forward to the new life ahead of us. No better tribute could be offered to such a selfless and sacrificial woman.
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Why I take my teens to Mass—even when they struggle with Catholicism
I hope their belief will deepen. And I hope that my fellow Catholics in the pews will demonstrate that the wider church wants them there too.