Surrendering bodily vanity is only the beginning of what happens to you when you become a mother.
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Afghan refugees and the Good Samaritans of Twitter
As images of desperate Afghan refugees flooded the news last week, I felt overwhelmed by my own inadequacy. Then I saw an Amazon wishlist of refugees’ concrete needs — and logged on to Twitter.
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Pandemic pilgrimage: what a cross-country road trip taught me about hope
A summer road trip to reunite with friends around the country became a 10,000 mile hope-based pilgrimage to find unexpected grace in the ordinary.
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Catholics deserve better homilies. Here are my top 5 tips for fellow preachers.
Catholics have lots of great advice for their priests. Here, with all the humility you might expect of a Jesuit, is my own list of top five suggestions for Catholic preachers.
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A Mexican novena for the dead is transformed for the digital age by Covid-19
In Latin American immigrant communities, lay faith leaders adapt a ritual of mourning that builds community amid isolation.
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Three spiritual exercises for facing a long future with Covid-19
It can be dispiriting, even infuriating, to imagine our future with Covid-19. Spiritual exercises inspired by Ignatius can help us become more aware and move past our anger.
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We must share our memories of 9/11, no matter how difficult they are to communicate
How do we communicate what it was like to live that day to people who were not yet born?
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What my students have taught me about suffering
I don’t understand why some of my students are allowed to suffer as he did. But the knowledge of Christ’s death stanches my anger long enough that I am able to entertain the idea that there is still a point to serving this God.
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I am a queer Catholic. When will the church feel like home?
I want to belong to a church that is willing to see my L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and me as just like straight and cisgender Catholics in our striving to follow Jesus. Can Catholic church leaders stand in my shoes?
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The Assumption of Mary brought me peace after my mother’s death
I am told that at the last moment, my mother sat up, looked towards heaven and fell back to her pillow. I chose to believe Mary came to her, took her and is with her still.