How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?
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Parents: Wills and medical directives are the last best gift you can give your kids.
Here is a way to show how much you really love your children: Do the paperwork.
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A Jesuit guide to dealing with unvaccinated family members this holiday season
If some of your family members aren’t vaccinated, you might have some hard choices to make this holiday season. St. Ignatius can help.
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The best holiday tradition you’ve never heard of: Venezuelans roller skating to Christmas Mass at sunrise
One of the best parts of Christmas is hearing about how other people celebrate it. And in Venezuela, they have all-night roller skating, which ends with everyone skating to Mass at dawn.
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How the Catholic Worker Movement inspired one couple to open their doors to people with AIDS
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.