The future demands faith. Either we summon it and nurture it, or fear will rule our final days.
The Good Word
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Have you ever had the spiritual wind knocked out of you?
When the Spirit is knocked out of you, you understand that it was never really yours.
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Is your self-image holding you captive?
A solitary image, of ourselves or others, is often more misleading than life-giving.
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The dangers of becoming a ‘professional’ Catholic
The saints are passionate; the lukewarm are professional.
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In purgatory, God turns back time—and transforms sin
God’s mercy finds a way to fix, in time, in us, what a time of sin has distorted.
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All Saints Day is not Lesser Saints Day
Today in honoring the saints, we recognize that they have built the church.
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Even with so many dead in the Civil War, what Lincoln teaches us about the value of human life.
We love our definitions, our categories and our ability to transform most anything in the world into an equation.
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What Catholics in post-Protestant democracy can learn from medieval monarchs
If we, the people, are ourselves responsible for the good of the state, then we have the same obligations that a medieval monarch once had.
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If we believe God’s promises, how can we keep from singing?
We the church ought to be a people marked by joy, like guests at a wedding feast.
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Why it hurts so much when a loved one leaves the church
Being human does not get any harder than when there is a rupture between meaning and love