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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Family
Joseph Koss

Love Multiplies, Not Divides

I will be honest, a week ago I was really scared. It was my wife’s “Due Date” with our second child, and I realized that

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Life
Julie Machado

Lessons from my Youth Group

I have been leading the youth group at my parish for almost four years now, based on the LifeTeen (www.lifeteen.com) model. I started out with lofty expectations

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Life
Bob Waruszewski

Life in the Post-College World

One of the things I have realized this past year is that the transition period from college to adult life is one of life’s toughest

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Thirst Quenching

“O let all who thirst, Let them come to the water And let all who have nothing, Let them come to the Lord.” Today’s post

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Jobs
Elizabeth Hillgrove

Traveling with Purpose

Tie your running shoes to the outside of your bag before the security lines to save space and wear slip off shoes for ease of

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Life
Sr. Lisa Marie

Wasted for Love

A couple of weeks ago, in the post, A Path to God, we considered the painful truth of discernment of religious life (or priesthood), and

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Career
Sarah Babbs

Just Feed One

“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from

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The “Other Girls”

Mommy blogs and how popular they have become, is the topic of conversation these past few days. Julie wrote a wonderful piece last week about them

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