Joe Biden made the perfect reply to a child who is sorry and shaky and demoralized and has no idea how to fix the damage caused: the recommitment to unconditional love.
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I was educated by abusive priests. What should I do with the gifts they gave me?
I loved my school while I was there. I trusted its people to keep me safe, and they did. But was I just lucky?
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I didn’t watch the Amy Coney Barrett hearings—and I’m a better Christian for it.
When I am always angry and distraught, it is harder to be a good wife, mother, writer, Christian. The full throttle news life makes me a worse person, and it’s voluntary.
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A Prayer for the Election
Loving God, I ask you to guide me during this important election season.
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Jeannie Gaffigan: My loved ones told me ‘real’ Catholics vote for Trump. Here’s my response.
Here is my confession: I am a real Catholic, and I am not going to vote for Donald J. Trump.
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20 life-changing parenting tips from a Catholic comedian
If you disagree with any of it, don’t worry. It probably just means you are a bad parent. And that’s O.K.! It makes the rest of us look good.
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In defense of people-watching after Communion
After months of Zoom liturgies, I am beginning to think people-watching at Mass can itself be an opportunity for deeper communion.
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My father lost his Catholic faith—but God never left him
My father turned away from religion. While reading his old letters, I got a glimpse of some of his earlier experiences with the Church.
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Emmett Till’s faithful mother is the saint we need in the fight for racial justice
Mamie Till Mobley understood something our sanitized pictures of Jesus hide: that the suffering of Jesus continued in the death of her son and is ongoing in the death of George Floyd.
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Hurricane Laura made me evacuate my home at 9-months pregnant. I’m still trusting God.
Even in the the eye of a storm that seems so colossal we can see no tomorrow, I know this: God is good.