They were intent on responding with mercy to a crisis that at the time showed no signs of slowing.
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How my time in the Air Force led me to the priesthood
34 years as a priest allow for a perspective no 19-year-old G.I. can have.
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Working to ‘transform your own heart’ can’t be an excuse to ignore social injustice
If the world is going to wait for all of us to become perfect before we can find solutions to social evils, the world will have to wait for a long time.
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I’m a 25-year-old Catholic who ran for public office. But don’t call me a politician.
Although I did not emerge victorious in the race for legislator in Nassau County’s 14th District, I did learn some valuable lessons about my country and my own beliefs along the way.
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Remembering Sister Megan Rice: the ‘Joan of Arc’ of the anti-nuclear movement
“Please have no leniency on me,” Sister Rice once said at trial. ”To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest honor you could give me.”
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Covid delayed my college graduation 517 days. It taught me the importance of rituals—even if we celebrate them late.
Can a ritual that comes a year and a half late possibly mean what it was originally supposed to? No. But it ended up having a deep meaning entirely its own.
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Sex and Confession: 5 helpful guidelines
First: You are not required to talk about sex in the confessional.
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The debate over Pete Buttigieg’s paternity leave is missing one thing: the birth mother
The Buttigieg discourse is about sexuality, class, money, work, fatherhood, legislation. But do you know what has not been talked about at all? The mother.
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Three Reasons Everyone Should Try Anonymous Confession
Whatever a person’s experiences and fears of confession have been, going to confession behind a partition has a tremendous amount to offer us.
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When a Jewish hospital chaplain was asked to perform a Catholic baptism
If the baby was born alive and they waited for the priest to make it over to the hospital, they ran the risk that the baby might die before the priest arrived to perform the sacrament of baptism.