James Carroll’s article gives no hint that we are all, in fact, sinners in need of salvation; he argues that the only thing lay Catholics need to be saved from is Catholicism itself.
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The Catholic high school that holds funerals for homeless veterans
At the time of his death, U.S. Army Veteran Timothy Fowl left behind no known friends or family. But every student left school that day keeping Mr. Fowl’s memory alive.
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As a soldier I was loved for my sins. Now I must repent for them.
When I returned from Afghanistan, I needed to find a way to go from being a Marine who is loved for his sins to being a believer who is a sinner but who is loved. I needed to find a way to come home.
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My time with Jean Vanier and his mom, the grandmother of L’Arche
Pauline Vanier sold everything she owned and moved into a small house in Trosly-Breuil. She became “Mamie,” the grandmother of L’Arche.
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What being a twin taught me about motherhood
Despite only recently earning the title, motherhood was not new to me. My body, my mind, my time are not my own.
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What not to do during Mother’s Day Mass
Mother’s Day is already difficult for women who long to be moms or have lost children in miscarriage, stillbirth or the death of a child after birth. And these women do not make up a small percentage of the women in the pews.
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Dear priests who improvise at Mass: Please don’t.
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.