We have to advance the conversation beyond one that limits women to emulating male models but instead understands women and men in relation to one another.
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On the International Day of Charity we should ask ourselves: Can I do more?
There are so many needs that we can easily feel overwhelmed. Where do we begin? How do we begin? How do we sort out our priorities?
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I received God’s healing from the hands of a pharmacist
The confessional and the psychiatrist’s office are both holy ground.
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The church wants my son to consider the priesthood. After the abuse scandal, how can I trust he’d be safe in seminary?
We must not fear losing priests because we ask the right questions of our bishops.
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Mary Karr’s unlikely conversion to Catholicism
The best-selling memoirist on her turn from agnosticism to the Catholic Church and how Ignatian spirituality has changed her life
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Why do we look for God in a hurricane?
God is not some petulant deity sending disaster upon those who disobey; God is the God who meets us in disaster.
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Four tips for surviving the sign of peace at Mass
Navigating that 30-second trial of social competency that causes even the most extroverted of Catholics to break a sweat
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My daughter’s alcoholism and recovery changed how I see the parable of the prodigal son
Do not ever let anyone say that sobriety is easy on a family: The return of a prodigal can spark consuming fires.
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Why more U.S. Catholics should know about St. Alberto Hurtado, S.J.
We often make a distinction between charity and justice. This 20th-century Chilean saint practiced both.
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A deadly crash on the Feast of the Assumption
The car flipped over 10 times. Maybe 15. I woke up to steel smashing against cement, over and over, over and over. Glass shattered and flew in my face and hair.