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Royce Hood

Walls, Pain, Filth

Asia Bibi’s cell is like a tomb, deprived of sunlight. She can see ‘no more than the prison bars, the wet ground and the walls

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Leah Jacobson

NEEDED: Motherhood

Greetings Ignitum readers! My apologies for missing my last posting here a few weeks back. I’m sure you were all wondering where I was (uhh hum) and/or

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Catholic Education
Royce Hood

Ave Maria Law School Tribute Video

This video was produced using pictures taken between 2009 and 2012 while I was a student at Ave Maria School of Law.  Pictures include various events

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Colin Gormley

Communication is a discipline

Like a bird flying toward a window I approach my deadline.  So here goes.  My apologies to anyone who sustains injury after reading this post.

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Allie Terrell

By God’s Grace

Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect. – Matthew 5:48 Perfection. We are constantly pressured to be more and more perfect.

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Pastor Gino Jennings and statue of Mary, sorry Saint Therese of the Child Jesus
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Godwin Delali Adadzie

Mary and anti-Catholic bigotry

I just came across a shocking but not surprising video by Pastor Gino Jennings of the First Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Philadelphia,

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Sarah Babbs

What Mercy Looks Like

When Stacy announced this symposium on Mercy and Killing, two words sprang immediately to mind: Capital Punishment. Perhaps it’s the years I spent as an

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10 Misunderstandings

For about four years of my life I taught Catholic high school and have heard just about every question on Faith that exists.  I think

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Jennifer Mazzara

Speed of Life

That’s a catchy, clever little phrase. “The speed of life.” David Bowie used it for a song. I think there was a movie. I don’t

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Kayla Peterson

Overwhelmed

Everyone tells you how hard marriage is. They warn you against letting the sun go down on your anger, give creative ideas for date nights

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Nathan Kennedy

False Greatness and its Remedy

Most of the time I assume myself to be a person falling into the same category Churchill found himself in when dealing with people he

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Anna Williams

Living poverty

In the latest installment of USA Today’s On Religion series, veteran journalist Judith Valente writes about Benedictine nuns in Atchison, Kansas. One choice sentence: “Whatever

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To Learn Silence

As a perpetual chatterbox I approach the mysteries of Holy Week with mixed emotions. The stark, somber tones of the liturgies are in direct contrast

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Julie Machado

Is Being Single a Failure?

A wise friend once asked me, “Do you want to marry him or do you just want to get married in general?” Am I really

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Mariella Hunt

This is the World God Created

God likes to send us strange places, and teach us lessons we’d never learn in our comfort zone. This is happening to me right now,

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