another life to remember

Looking at pictures of the March for Life makes me happy, with a little twinge of “Oh-I-wish-I-coulda-been-there!”  All these people, many of them still students, interrupting

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Columnists
Jared Dale Combista

The World Ends With You

A lot of you may have read Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, which is the author’s last and greatest novel, and you may have found

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Guest Writer

Leadership PPK

Guest Post by Jared Tomanek After reading many articles, researching tons of studies, preparing case studies, and attending more than my fair share of grad

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Chelsea Zimmerman

A Generation Lucky to Be Alive

Today, hundreds of thousands of pro-life people are gathered in Washington D.C. for the annual March for Life, commemorating the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade,

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Ink and Quill

Divertissement and Distraction

Weariness.–Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness,

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Life
Nathaniel Gotcher

Of Lotion and Life

It’s funny what can inspire a blog post. In this case, it was a bottle of lotion. There is was, sitting on the sink in

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Rachel Zamarron

More Thoughts On The Veil

The Dec. 15th article on the veil fueled some great discussions in Catholic blogging circles. Father Dwight Longenecker did this follow up post and Deacon

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Julie Machado

Femininity and Nurturing

There is this emotion that every now and then swells up in me and the only word I can think of to describe it is

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College
Guest Writer

Catholic Education?

SOCIALIS Saturday is a weekend event where we discuss specific topics.     If we host a symposium at Ignitum Today about Catholic education, what

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Columnists
Leah Jacobson

New Feminism is True Feminism

Feminist. The f-word of femininity. Ok, maybe that’s a little over the top and not exactly true, but stay with me for a second here. 

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Nathaniel Gotcher

Wherein we discuss Art

I have the unfortunate luck to be an artist-philosopher since above all it is the artist-philosopher that most often brings my hand to my forehead

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Michelle Burns

Do you know your neighbors?

Less than two weeks ago, my feet touched American soil for the first time since August.  After four months of non-stop, Spanish-speaking, purpose-packed, community-focused, Christ-centered

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Books
Ink and Quill

The Truth of Fairy Tales

It may be a commonplace to call our age one that prides itself on freedom from the “miserable dark ages,” from obscurantism, superstition, and perhaps

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Family
Nathaniel Gotcher

The Activism of the Ordinary

One of my heroes had a motto “Do the ordinary things extraordinarily” or something to that effect and gosh darn it if we as a

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Columnists
Elizabeth Hillgrove

Carrying Baby Jesus into Christmas Mass

Dust off the cameras and projectors, pull out the forgotten chairs, and unpack several dozen more sleeves of wafers: Christmas is almost here! With Christmas

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Family
Brent Stubbs

To Be A Father

“Our Father who art in heaven…” When Jesus said, “when you pray say, Our Father” the colossal impact of this is lost on the modern

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