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What Would Women Saints Say?
It’s busy season for debates over the role of women in Christianity. First, there was the so-called “war on nuns,”…
Browsing: Learn & Live the Faith
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Setting Sail for Pleasure Island
Almost two thousand years ago, the Roman historian Livy assessed the situation in Rome by noting, “We can bear neither…
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Dedication of St. John Lateran
As a rebellious teenager, I thought that Catholics should stop wasting their money on expensive churches. We ought to sell…
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Face Time with Mary
I was working at Ave Maria University in Florida when a new sculpture of the Annunciation had just been commissioned. I witnessed a…
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Family Circle: Honor Thy Mother and Father
Could failure to follow God’s commands be robbing your family of grace? God not only became one of us,…
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Reflections for Sunday, November 11, 2012
Meditation and Questions for Reflection or Group Discussion (1 Kings 17:10-16; Psalm 146:7-10; Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 12:38-44) The Extravagant Love…
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Tree of Souls: A Way to Remember and Pray
The highest-grossing movie of all time, Avatar,features a giant willow-like tree that represents the center of culture and religion for…
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A Saint in the Making
This week I’ve been reading about the “back stories” of the saints. It can be easy, sometimes, to think of…
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All Soul’s Day
I’ll never forget that bleak January day when my father died. It was very hard to believe in the resurrection…
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Sleepless in the Night
I’m entering a new phase of my life . . . the “hot” zone. One minute, minding my own business,…