College
Opening Hands
Before I left for college, I wrote about how my tendency to control and plan every aspect of my life often hurt more than it
Abigail C. Reimel
October 6, AD 2013
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The Annoying "Yes" Lady at Mass
Due to many scheduling conflicts a few Sundays back, I went to Mass by myself without the wife and kids. Over the past month or
Edmund Mitchell
October 4, AD 2013
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Columnists
Family Life: A Call for Volunteers
Wait…you want me to be involved? This week was our parish’s Ministry Fair. They have been publicizing this fair for weeks. When we headed over
Elizabeth Teixeira
September 29, AD 2013
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Columnists
The Experience of Translating
Foreign languages, I realize, are not for everyone. Many can go throughout their whole lives content to read Scripture in their native language. I certainly
Matthew Heinrich
September 29, AD 2013
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Columnists
A Defense of Indulgences
When I first heard about indulgences I was pretty skeptical; they can sound so cold, clear-cut and strangely precise in an imprecise world. Now that
Theresa Noble
September 28, AD 2013
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Columnists
Rubricism, Juridicalism, and the Slavery of Preconciliar Catholicism
I have been nerding out since I discovered that archive.org has digitized the 1912 edition of the Decreta Authentica Sacræ Congregationis Rituum, which contains all 4,284
Sean Connolly
September 24, AD 2013
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Columnists
Jason Theobald
September 24, AD 2013
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Spirituality
Pharisees, Publicans and a Pope
This week, an in-depth interview with Pope Francis was released in Jesuit publications around the world. In the opening question, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?”,
Sr. Lisa Marie
September 20, AD 2013
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Columnists
A Church on the Way- Pretzels and Pilgrims
I am enthralled and enamored by air travel. There’s something about squishing down in a tiny seat next to a total stranger in the middle
Nic Davidson
September 6, AD 2013
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Religion
Losing Interest in Religion?
Someone close to me, who left the Catholic Church a long time ago, recently said something along the lines of, “I just got to a point where I
Cindy Bird
September 5, AD 2013
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Five Commonalities Between Christianity and Islam
Among all kinds of cultural, political, and interfaith dialogues, the one between Christianity and Islam is arguably the most interesting. Many of my friends from
Anna Elissa
September 3, AD 2013
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What Do You Smell like?
You probably did not miss Pope Francis’ recommendation that bishops should smell like their sheep. What may have been missed is the universal call to
J.Q. Tomanek
August 29, AD 2013
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Columnists
The Post about Pride
Have you ever thought about yourself like you think about others? People can be idiots, prigs, jerks, crazies. People can just get on your nerves,
Sean Connolly
August 27, AD 2013
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Columnists
Canonizing Chesterton, Heroic Virtue, and Ordinary Life
Saint G.K. Chesterton has a nice ring to it, so it was with some special joy that I read the report that the “sympathetic” bishop
Nicene Guy
August 20, AD 2013
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Columnists
What does Faith mean to you?
In the Year of Faith I was asked by my local Catholic newspaper to write about what faith means to me. Here’s my thoughts: Faith
Chelsea Houghton
August 17, AD 2013
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The Feast of the Assumption and Fulton Sheen
The Feast of the Assumption is tomorrow; and some of us might be wondering: “What is the importance of this feast? Is it still relevant
Emily C. Hurt
August 14, AD 2013
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Catholic Education
An Easy Essay
Peter Maurin believed in teaching ancient principles to the man on the street in the language of the man on the street. Peter Maurin believed
Sean Connolly
August 8, AD 2013
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Columnists
Regret
“Live as though dying daily.” -St. Antony of Egypt, as recorded by St. Athanasius We have almost no viable perspective from which to evaluate our
Sean Connolly
August 7, AD 2013
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Columnists
Prayer and Psychology Plus How We Can Understand Mental Illness and the Spiritual Life
Embark, once again, we do on this worthy yet controversial quest to present some basic principles on how psychology, properly understood and aided by Christian
Tim Glemkowski
August 6, AD 2013
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Religion
7 Weaknesses for Today’s Catholics
I’m a practicing Catholic. And by that I mean I am practicing, I’m not a pro yet. Just like the 11 year-old me used to
TJ Burdick
August 3, AD 2013
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Catholicism: The Only True Extremism, Part I
In today’s ideologically polarized society, the term “extremist” is bandied about with increasing frequency by pundits, politicians from both sides of the aisle, and bureaucrats
Chris Ricketts
August 1, AD 2013
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