By inviting birth mothers into our conversations about reproductive politics, we risk complicating the stories we tell ourselves about adoption and the people who participate in it.
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A Coronavirus Prayer for this Weary Winter
As we walk through this time of darkness, give us faith that we are headed toward brighter days.
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Read: An exclusive essay by Pope Francis on a ‘personal Covid,’ his exile in Argentina
Pope Francis: Córdoba was a kind of lockdown, self-isolating as so many of us have done lately, and it did me good.
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Ita, Maura, Dorothy, Jean: The legacy of 4 missionaries murdered in El Salvador 40 years ago
The four churchwomen chose to stay and to suffer, as St. Romero had once said, “the same fate as the poor.”
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What St. Edmund Campion and AIDS victims share: They were killed by fear
Father Matt Malone’s homily for the Feast of St. Edmund Campion, patron of America Media.
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What reporting on the AIDS epidemic taught me about my fellow LGBT Catholics
Part of my project aims to show that Catholics responded heroically to H.I.V. and AIDS in the early days. What I didn’t realize in setting out to tell these stories was how raw that time remains for so many people, even decades later.
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Dear White Catholics: It’s time to be anti-racist and leave white fragility behind.
It is important to feel guilt and shame over racism in order to overcome it.
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I didn’t get how St. Francis of Assisi found joy in poverty—until I walked in his footsteps.
St. Francis’ poverty was not cold and brutal but actually, in a way, worldly. It was a poverty that anyone today searching for what is real and authentic might relate to.
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A Thanksgiving prayer in the time of Covid
Maybe the only prayer I can utter this Thanksgiving is: Teach me to be grateful.
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We should stop filming the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
An e-Eucharist can be unsacramental and even anti-sacramental.