If we can accept that God loves us as we are, that we are worthy of love at any size, is it wrong to also desire to be thinner and to take steps to reach that goal?
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The Jesuits’ complicated past in Haiti: From owning plantations to serving the Black community
Catholicism was the established religion of colonial Haiti, the site of one of the largest populations of enslaved peoples in the Americas.
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Bishop McElroy: Pope Francis and Vatican II give us a road map for the synodal process
Having begun the process of synodality, we should not let the process go dormant until after the pope’s apostolic exhortation on the universal synod is released in 2024.
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How America Sold Out Little League Baseball
In the United States, baseball is becoming a mostly white country-club sport for upper-class families to consume, like a snorkeling vacation or a round of golf.
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The next issue in the abortion debate after Roe v. Wade: Do we really honor motherhood?
The recent leak to Politico of a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito suggests that the Supreme Court will soon strike down Roe v. Wade. We must consider the road ahead.
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Have Catholics been praying the Our Father all wrong?
Catholics, that is to say, have not necessarily been praying the Our Father wrongly, but too often we have not been praying it fully, either. While we are busy trying to get it right, we neglect to make it our own and discover its vast permutations.
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Leonard Cohen’s imperfect covenant with others, lovers and God
Marcia Pally’s new book focuses on Leonard Cohen’s faith, relationships and worldview through his use of Jewish and Christian imagery.
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‘We are all responsible together for what the church becomes’: Vatican II, synodality and the future of Catholicism
Kenneth Woodward interviews the Rev. Joseph Komonchak, the renowned scholar of the Second Vatican Council, on the council’s impact yesterday and today.
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We Need to Talk About Race: Lessons from ‘The Gloria Purvis Podcast’
We need to use the minds that God gave us to break down this injustice.
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Greg Boyle, S.J.: What Rodney King and racial unrest in Los Angeles taught me about policing and community
It was after this moment, 30 years ago, that chiefs of police, beginning in Los Angeles and spreading everywhere, started to say, “We cannot arrest our way out” of this.