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.
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Is your smartphone making you sin more? Consider a technological examination of conscience.
Summer is a good season to take stock of how our dependence on technology can change us. Here are seven steps for seeing your smartphone more clearly.
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It’s O.K. to be mad at people who refuse to get vaccinated. (But you should pray for them, too.)
Even as I still would like to make everyone get vaccinated right this second, I also find myself praying for those still hesitant.
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How Ignatian spirituality enhanced my cognitive behavioral therapy
Talking to God about my struggles came to be a crucial part of my mental health resilience and recovery.
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Three quick tips for praying like St. Ignatius on his feast day
Five hundred years after that cannonball blast, we honor Ignatius Loyola, as a visionary and saint on his feast day, July 31.
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Like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka, I’ve stepped away from competition because of performance anxiety.
This is what I hope the future conversation around mental health in sports looks like.
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I love Latin Mass and Pope Francis. Please don’t let a few (very loud) traditionalists ruin it for the rest of us.
Many Catholics are now devastated to lose access to a treasured rite that has nourished their spiritual lives for decades.
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Many Catholics who felt lost after Vatican II found comfort in the Latin Mass. Now, they are hurting again.
I pray for unity in the church. I pray also for the consolation of fellow Catholics, who may now be denied that portion of the church’s tradition that has nourished their faith, as it once did mine.
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As a deaf Catholic, the Latin Mass gives me equal access to the liturgy
If the Latin Mass that I attend currently were to cease, I would be back to square one for determining which aspects of myself I am willing to sacrifice on Sunday.
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A thank you letter to the Christian who stopped me on the sidewalk and told me to repent
The confrontational stranger who reminded me of the wages of sin probably had my best interest at heart.