When L.G.B.T. people look at the communion of the saints, we should be able to see someone who looks like us.
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I don’t think we should be banning anyone from the Eucharist.
It is Christ who sets the table and draws up the guest list. Who are we, serving at that table, to amend his invitation?
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The blessings and sorrows of being a female Catholic hospital chaplain
My journal lists the names of 19 children this year who died after I spoke with their crying mother, their weary father.
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The little-known history of a Catholic club that got Coca-Cola to change its racist hiring practices
In the 1950s in Omaha, Neb., the multi-racial DePorres Club realized it needed to escalate its tactics from uplifting the Black community to confronting white discrimination.
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My name has been in my family for seven generations. Here’s what I hope it means for the next one.
Our shared name is a constant reminder that the work I do today is not on behalf of some shapeless ideal of a better world, but for the world that my children will grow up in.
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My parish’s tabernacle was stolen. I’ll never see the Eucharist the same way again.
It took the theft of our church’s tabernacle for me to comprehend the sanctity of its contents.
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Mothers don’t need your opinion on breastfeeding. We need the formula shortage to end—now.
I feel qualified to tell everyone who has not attempted to nurse an infant to shut it.
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Praying at the sites of gun violence—even when you feel helpless
Sometimes, standing in a spot and truly acknowledging pain may be the best thing we can do.
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I found a church in Times Square. And if God can make it there, God can make it anywhere.
For people who live in New York City, Times Square is a nightmare place, a hellish whirlpool of bodies, noise and capitalism. But this weekend I discovered something new and not awful there.
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Seven tips for a more joyful priesthood
The greatest evangelization we can offer is a joyful church.