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Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer and author of The Sinner's Guide to Natural Family Planning. She blogs daily at simchafisher.com and weekly at The Catholic Weekly. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 kids.
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Articles By Simcha Fisher
Cristo crucificado, by Diego Velázquez, 1632
Faith Faith in Focus
Jesus knew about Cardinal McCarrick
Simcha FisherAugust 01, 2018
He knew about Uncle Ted, and he knew about everything else we’re about to find out. That is why he came.
Faith Features
How the church can help (or hurt) women in abusive marriages
Simcha FisherJune 26, 2018
What pastors say to women in abusive relationships can be life-changing
Faith Faith in Focus
Suicide and abortion stem from the same lie: that some lives don’t matter.
Simcha FisherJune 18, 2018
Choosing death is choosing death, and that choice always comes from within a dark hole.
Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, as they arrive for a meeting in the synod hall at the Vatican in this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) 
Politics & Society Last Take
The pope and a cardinal show Catholics the right way to call someone out
Simcha FisherMay 22, 2018
Righteous call-outs should be patterned after Cardinal O’Malley’s rebuke of Pope Francis on sex abuse.
Faith Faith in Focus
It’s O.K. to complain about the demands of faith. But how you vent matters.
Simcha FisherApril 18, 2018
Venting is good. Venting is sometimes lifesaving. But it matters where you vent and why.
Faith Last Take
The great (and tragic) comedy of going to confession
Simcha FisherMarch 22, 2018
If you cannot laugh at the ignominy of whispering your wretched little sins through a screen, then when will you laugh?
Faith Faith in Focus
How Lent consoles us—and shows us what it means to be abandoned
Simcha FisherFebruary 26, 2018
Jesus has felt our sorrow, carried our burdens, sweated through our labors, taken our punishment onto himself.
Faith Faith in Focus
Why we get angry at other Catholics who don’t know what we know
Simcha FisherJanuary 18, 2018
(And what the Gospel says we should do instead)
Faith Faith in Focus
The case for accepting some clutter in your life this Christmas season
Simcha FisherDecember 19, 2017
It is always a losing game to chase a simply stated lifestyle. Life is not simple. Life cannot be organized.
Jacob Tremblay and Julia Roberts in “Wonder” (CNS photo/Lionsgate). 
Arts & Culture Film
‘Wonder’ is sappy and predictable, but you should take your kids anyway.
Simcha FisherNovember 22, 2017
‘Wonder’ is a tween melodrama on a mission of mercy.