Adding more words will not make Mass “better.” If you cleanly speak the words as they are, if you let them flow through you, the people in the pews may hear the Mass as they have never heard it before. You do not need to do more. It’s not about you.
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Announcing the winner of the 2019 Anne Frank Essay Competition: ‘If Not Now, When?’
Fear should not keep us from fulfilling our very purpose to love one another.
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What a priest, two poets and doubting Thomas taught me about love
I think of pressing a hand or a finger into a wound in order to see, in order to believe.
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If Jeff Bezos wants to be ‘disruptive’, he should listen to biblical prophets
Entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos talk about being “innovators” and “disrupters,” but really they are not—not in truly world-shaking ways. Imagine if they announced to the world: We are doubling the wages of our warehouse workers, increasing benefits. We are becoming, for God’s sake, a cooperative.
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The ‘literal flesh-and-blood’ resurrection is the heart of my faith
I believe that Jesus Christ rose from the dead on the first Easter Sunday. And I do not see that as any sort of parable or metaphor.
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Seven tips for new Catholics, from one convert to another
Welcome! Christ is risen.
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Poems from children on the frontlines of climate change
The students in Kenya understood in the most visceral way the value of water. The misuse of natural resources during our age of climate change is unethical and inhuman. No matter your world view, water is special. Kids get this.
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I didn’t need a degree in theology to convert. Being Catholic just felt right.
Most converts I know have an elevator speech on why they became Catholic. My Catholicism just sort of “happened.”
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What Rome’s station churches teach us about Easter
The liturgies of Lent and Easter, like the churches themselves, are built upon the conviction that the resurrection changes everything.
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John Dickerson of CBS News: Journalism keeps me humble
All journalists should be humble because we are so often wrong.