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Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Don’t wait for the young adult group to get involved in your parish
Young adult Catholics suffer from lacking a community of other young adults, but we fundamentally suffer from a lack of a wider Catholic community. A parish can offer that — even without the hip young adult group.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Romeo and Jesus? Christians have always been unrepentant romantics.
Jesus calls forth our loving gifts, though, apart from him, they can never rise to meet the lofty love of God.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: God wants people to dream big, not listen to cynics
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus is like an “arsonist,” the pope said, setting people’s hearts ablaze.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How a young atheist and a priest who lost his faith made me a better evangelizer
The first step in an evangelizing relationship is that the evangelizer be evangelized.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
President of Strake Jesuit in Houston: ‘Our care for one another seems limitless.’
No one will be surprised to know that our Jesuit family is responding generously.
Posted inFaith, Features
When a Jew and a Catholic marry
There are tens of thousands of Jewish-Catholic intermarriages in the United States, and a good number of them involve partners with strong commitments to their separate traditions.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Why Catholics are called to radical hospitality in these political times
I grew up recognizing foreign as familiar, global as local and diverse as approximating perfection.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why are there so many statues in Catholic churches?
There are not many moments in our worship when our bodies are not being used to say something about what we believe.
Posted inFaith, Video
Confessions on the geaux
A cajun priest bought an old ambulance and converted it into a mobile confessional