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Attachment in Human Love
Love between a man and a woman is one of the most beautiful things in the world. But what happens…
Monthly Archives: March, 2012
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Super Tuesday and Being Human
I write on Super Tuesday, but my reflections here pertain to the entire election season of 2012, and in fact,…
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Poem: “Agony”
Agony Praying in a garden, Leaning on a rock I know that Pilate’s soldiers Are going to torture and mock.…
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19-Year-Old’s Dream Continued by Dominican Sisters
As the sun sends red and blue hues through the stained-glass windows into a convent chapel in the Chicago area,…
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The Meaning of Mercy (Part I)
The Second Vatican Council taught us that the Eucharist is the “source and summit” of the Christian life. Yet we…
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The Nature Of Marriage Is Not Defined By Popular Whim
The debate over “social issues” in the United States recently brought many important topics, those typically reserved for the backburner…
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Overcoming the Merely Therapeutic: Human Excellence and the Moral Life
In Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers (2005), researchers Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton argue that for…
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Reflections for Sunday, March 11, 2012
Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19:8-11; 1 Corinthians 1:22-25; John 2:13-25) Being Angry toward…
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How She Does It
“How do you do it?” Busy mothers hear this all the time. Time management is an important yet elusive goal.…
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The Catholic Church is No Enemy of Science or the Infertile
Because of her opposition to third party reproduction, the Catholic Church is often accused of being anti-science and insensitive to…