Money & Finance
Anna Williams

Moral Economics 101

According to one admittedly unscientific survey, 37% of Occupy Wall Street protesters believe that capitalism is inherently immoral — presumably because they think it encourages

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Entertainment
Allie Terrell

Visualize This

My research in graduate school focuses on data visualization, so I tend to read quite a few visualization blogs. In general, they cover best practices,

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Life
Sr. Lisa Marie

Path to God

Last week on VP, I took the opportunity to write a post on marriage and a recent experience I had, witnessing a friend give himself

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Religion
Guest Writer

Taking a Dip of Faith

Guest post by Joe Sales This is the second in a series that Joe is doing for VirtuousPla.net on the Blessed Sacraments. His first post

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Life
Joseph Koss

“Not by Bread Alone…”

I want to #occupyyourheart for a few minutes. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.) We can’t turn around without hearing about the economic woes of the world.

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Religion
Guest Writer

Agree to Disagree?

Guest post by Amanda Castro Facebook is a plethora of obscure knowledge and people who claim to know a great deal of things that in

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Movies
Elizabeth Hillgrove

Being nun the wiser

With the help of a winky face, Sister Lisa challenged me to reach into the deep end of my spirituality. Her honest and beautiful approach

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Life
Julie Machado

Obedience to God through People (ouch!)

I experienced dramatically that I don’t know what’s best for me, only God does. And usually my plans go against His (“My thoughts are not your thoughts…” Is 55:8). So my best bet for happiness and salvation is to be obedient to God’s will, and so in an incarnate way to be obedient to His Church, and also to be obedient to those who know and love me disinterestedly and might be there to guide me.

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Hard-Core Prolife

Lucky me just got back from a weekend trip that took me to the sunny and swampy city of New Orleans. It was a quick

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Life
Bob Waruszewski

Honoring Our Commitments

Some of the greatest character flaws in the millennial generation can be linked to the absence of genuine commitment. The person who commits to nothing

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I do

Our brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, we would like to humbly thank you for your prayers and spiritual support you’ve given us during this

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Prayer
Fabiola Garza

My Life in Roses

My friend Ellie and I pray a novena once in a while and it has always been a very fruitful time for the both of

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Theater
Sarah Babbs

Good Wins

“Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the

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Prayer
Nicene Guy

Miracles and Nature

“A small error at the outset can lead to great errors in the final conclusion” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Being and Essence, quoting Aristotle). There has

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Religion
Anna Williams

Why be Catholic?

“What does being Catholic mean to you?” That may sound like a corny question asked of high-schoolers at a church youth group… because it is,

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Married Life
Sr. Lisa Marie

The Beauty of Marriage

What makes a wedding timeless and beautiful, and what makes a marriage last? The Three M’s.

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a good marriage

My husband, Travis, and I are going on five years – five years of wedded bliss. Of course five years of marriage doesn’t make me an

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