The first in her family to attend college, a student reflects with her professor on her life of struggles and growth as she prepares to graduate from Loyola Marymount University.
Health and Wellness
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a Jesuit in formation. Here’s why I decided to take care of my mental health.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. To honor this month, I want to share why I’m so glad I sought help.
Posted inFaith, News
Sisters’ work during 1918 flu epidemic seen as model for crisis today
Throughout the United States, thousands of women religious took on nursing duties in hospitals or clinics and went into private homes to offer food, medicine, comfort and even housecleaning to families affected by the Spanish flu.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Gen-X women can’t ‘have it all’ after all
Generation X came of age in a culture awash in dreams of women’s perpetual and idealized childhood being sold as feminist empowerment.
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The good and beautiful things I’ve seen amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is good to know that people are still people, still willing to visit each other, still willing to bring hope, still willing to share what they have.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We must not allow the coronavirus to rob us of our humanity. How can we (safely) preserve it?
We cannot allow the coronavirus to make us see others as a threat.
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How can we be the body of Christ when the coronavirus closes our churches?
In this time in which we are not able to encounter Christ in the assembly or the Eucharist, we always have the opportunity to encounter Christ in the vulnerable.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
In Italy, church and state join together to fight coronavirus
The coronavirus has become Italy’s most major crisis since World War II.
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Faith in the time of Coronavirus
Many things have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. Love is not one of them.