For the first time, I was drawn to the Stations not as a meditation on Jesus’ suffering but as a place to lay my own burden down.
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This Lent, I’m focusing on spiritual conditioning
Can I keep going, push farther, give more?
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This Lent, I’m fasting from being an online spectator
It is not simply an act of “fasting from the digital world,” but a deliberate effort toward taking action. If I turn off my phone but never reincorporate myself into the lived world, I will have missed the point.
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Measuring Pope Francis’ legacy one year after his death
Among all the news articles I have read in the past couple of years, I am not ungrateful that one poignant, below-the-fold story has remained with me, a glow-in-the-dark star stuck to a ceiling. When Pope Francis visited Indonesia in September 2024, The New York Times reported about a group of transgender women in South […]
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Rediscovering the fiery and forgotten women of the Old Testament
As the class explored the stories of the fiery, intelligent, brave women of the Old Testament, I saw the hand of God in these stories of bold women and individuals on the margins.
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The Lenten practice that transformed my life
Was I, indeed, being selfish by spending so much time contemplating why I couldn’t do something that God might want me to do, rather than actually doing it?
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My Lenten Letters and the Woolly Bear Caterpillar
The Lenten letters I sent to my lapsed, dying father changed how I thought about coming to faith.
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Move over Christmas carols. It’s time for Lent’s greatest hits.
Lenten music and hymnody aim to lift us up and call us back to the two primary themes of this season of preparation for Easter.
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Latinos are leaving the church. This youth group is turning the tide.
Immigrants from Latin America and their children are transforming the Catholic Church in the United States. What that transformation looks like is still being worked out.
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Jeannie Gaffigan: Why I’m producing a show about sex abuse now
This project is not about creating “scandal.” It is not about attacking Catholics. It is about what happens to human beings when shame and silence get baked into the walls of a community.