Just because others have it worse than I do doesn’t mean I should avoid my struggles.
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Once I discovered liberation theology, I couldn’t be Catholic without it
If the people are in the streets in protest, then the church has to be in the streets in protest, too.
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How to celebrate with the graduate in your life who is grieving the loss of a loved one
What if you spent four years of college processing your grief?
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These saints ministered on the margins of privilege and power. They are my spiritual and artistic inspiration today.
I derive much of my hope, inner peace and creative inspiration from those saints and prophets who lived in and spoke from the margins outside the white, privileged worlds of power and authority in both church and society.
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As a delivery room nurse, I knew how to celebrate with new parents. But God taught me how to grieve with them, too
Working in labor and delivery can be a beautiful job. But there are trying times too.
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My father’s death was his final act of love
My dad had always been a God-like figure to me.
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I was kicked out of seminary for being too Black. But God wouldn’t let me go.
I wondered if I could even be Catholic anymore, much less continue pursuing the priesthood somewhere else.
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A Christian in Jerusalem at the Start of Another War
I refuse the logic that insists that, by saying the occupation must end, I am with the Palestinians and against the Israelis. There is a third place, which is not “for” or “against,” and that is the place of love, a love rooted in justice.
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A 22-week-old preemie put a face to the virtues I’ve learned as a nurse—and a Jesuit
I had never been more convinced of humanity’s potential for greatness than when I saw the freshly opened eyes of the smallest patient ever in my care.
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Gloria Purvis: ‘I’m not a conservative. I’m not a liberal. I’m just Catholic.’
When people meet me, at the Capitol or in a church, they may wonder or even ask me politely, “Are you a conservative or a liberal?” I smile and say, “I’m just a Catholic.”