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.
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Three Jesuit Volunteers reminded me why staying Catholic is worth it—despite the headlines
I spent three days with three 23-year-old volunteers in Kansas City during the second to last week of their service year to understand why they joined J.V.C., how the year shaped them and what role their Catholic faith played in their lives.
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A Prayer for the End of the Death Penalty
God who is justice, let the systems of justice we build on earth reflect your love for all creation. Let them value redemption over punishment, future over past, life over death.
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The Catholic Church’s prayers for victims of sexual abuse are beginning to ring hollow.
You would think that “sex abuse” could not become commonplace, but in our petitions, it has—until something like France happens.
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Catholic women feel called to be deacons. The church should listen to their stories.
How would opening the diaconate to women embolden the church for the Gospel mission given to all of the baptized: to proclaim good news to the poor and justice for the oppressed?
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The pre-Vatican II ritual you’ve probably never heard of—and we should definitely bring back
Rogation days can renew in us the desire for intercessory prayer.
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Remembering John August Swanson: a life dedicated to art, faith and justice
The beloved artist died Sept. 23. His works are the fruit of encountering sacred texts, accompanying the vulnerable and living every moment awake to God’s loving closeness.