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.
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Discernment can be hard—but God delights in your choice.
The world is full of uncertainty but God loves your desire to do what is right and also loves your creativity as you work with him on the project of your life.
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Our plans for school this year will probably fail—and that’s O.K.
Remote, in-person or home schooling: They are all impossible. So why worry about failing?
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Cristo Rey students taught me how to find consolation—even in a crisis
Just feeling good is spiritually different from the sensation of feeling one’s “heart drawn to God,” even if the circumstances are outwardly negative, bleak.
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Pope Francis’ critics are dividing the church and families—including mine.
Every conversation my mother and I had about religion drifted into an argument about Pope Francis. Being unable to talk about God with the person who gave me my faith as she lay dying was agonizing.
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Covid-19 in the land where Jesus walked
During Jerusalem’s lockdown, my family saw the Holy Land—and each other—with new eyes.