We begin each Mass like the disciples, locked in our rooms, isolated and maybe afraid. Then out of nowhere Jesus appears in our midst and brings us together.
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Remembering Janice McLaughlin, the Maryknoll sister who found freedom in the struggle for African liberation
Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain
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Lessons from a year of online liturgy at a Jesuit parish in Belize
Experimenting with virtual liturgies need not be a cause for despair but instead an invitation from the Lord to try something new.
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God is not a man (or a woman)
The mystery of the Triune God goes beyond the confines of sex or gender.
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Want a better prayer life this Lent? Start by being honest with God about everything. (Yes, everything.)
Honesty means sharing things you might consider inappropriate for conversation with God.
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How this pioneering Jesuit helped integrate Saint Louis University
Father Markoe’s pledge to work for racial justice helped transform Catholic institutions across the midwest.
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Father Albert McKnight: the Catholic combination of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
He was a priest who argued that the Catholic Church was fundamentally racist, all the while remaining a faithful member of it.
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Martin Sheen: How Mother Teresa, Dan Berrigan’s lawyer and I fought to end the Gulf War
The carnage unleashed in the Persian Gulf compelled me to act yet again in hopes that somehow the bloodletting would end.
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Why I left the church — and why I came back
Here is a little story about how I left the church, sort of, and then came slouching back home, more or less.
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Remembering Father Enda McDonagh, a ‘critical but loyal’ Irish theologian who questioned ‘Humanae Vitae’
Rev. Enda McDonagh served the Irish church as a compassionate priest and renowned theologian. He died on Feb. 24.