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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John Dickerson of CBS News: Journalism keeps me humble
All journalists should be humble because we are so often wrong.
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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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On Good Friday, remember that Jesus understands you
Jesus understands not only our bodily suffering, but also our spiritual suffering, in these feelings of abandonment. He was like us in all things, except sin. And he experienced all that we did.
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A First Communion memory
Some three months before Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module and left his footprints upon the surface of the moon in July, 1969, and uttered those immortal words about it being but “one small step for man” and yet “a giant leap for mankind,” a young, brown-haired, freckle-faced boy in the […]
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What Holy Thursday demands of every Catholic
The lesson I take from Jesus’ washing of the feet is this: I do not decide which lives have value and dignity; God does.
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Father James Martin: Where was God when Notre Dame was in flames?
Our Lady knows exactly what it is like to stand by and see someone you love suffer and die. But Our Lady also knew that, somehow, God was with her in that time of grief. But we could well ask: Where was God yesterday in Paris?