We grow worried and concerned and bothered and angry and sometimes scandalized because your divine institution, our home, is filled with human beings who are sinful. Just like me.
Spirituality
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The Tridentine Mass: Why I Couldn’t Go Back
An ordinary Sunday morning. I decide to go to a church that celebrates the Latin Mass every Sunday.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
Discernment and New Year’s Resolutions
I have usually entertained some ambiguity if not cynicism about New Year s resolutions.
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Where does gratitude fit in the spiritual life?
With Thanksgiving approaching we might ask: Where does gratitude fit in the spiritual life?
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Mary Oliver’s Good News
Mary Oliver reminds us of the mystery and necessity of poetry.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The Catholic side of Irish soda bread (and the world’s greatest recipe)
Cutting a cross into Irish soda bread dough before placing it in the oven serves both a scientific purpose and a spiritual one.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Jean Vanier’s Gift for Living
A celibate spiritual leader who is not a priest, a philosopher with a doctoral degree who is not a professor, Vanier is not easily categorized.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Recovering Western Liturgical Traditions
What can Catholics learn from our brothers in the Eastern church?
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The Joy of Transformation: Rediscovering the sacrament of reconciliation
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.