The queen of ‘tidying’ is captivating audiences with this question: What do you truly value?
Family Life
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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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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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Philadelphia can end religious adoption agencies over marriage views, court rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled April 22 that the city of Philadelphia can bar Catholic Social Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from placing children in foster care with any family because the Catholic agency upholds traditional marriage.
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After losing my 8-year-old son to cancer, I am not afraid of death
From 1997: While I am eager to live, I am also eager to take the journey when God calls me.
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A Jesuit’s controversial case for building a bomb shelter
Does Catholic social teaching permit you to mount a machine gun at the door of your family’s fallout shelter? In 1961, this was not an idle question.
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We’re sacrificing our kids’ mental health to the college admission industrial complex
For high school seniors, existential angst about what schools they will get into, how much aid they will receive and how much debt they will need to take on to get a degree has become a national rite of passage.
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Do we ever retire from being mothers?
Since retiring from my job, my husband has found me irritating. We had a talk (after fighting), and he is right: I am mothering him. Smothering him. “I have a mother,” he said. “I want a wife, a partner, a best friend.”
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What my young daughter gets out of Mass (even when she’s crying)
Watching my daughter learn from others has taught me I should not underestimate my daughter, my church or my God.