Entertainment
Guest Writer

Favorite posts of the year!

This week for the SOCIALIS Saturday weekend event, the topic is a no-brainer.   What is your #1 favorite post of the year? Link it

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Religion
Nicene Guy

Contemplating Beauty

Beauty is mentioned alongside goodness and truth as something for which all men yearn; yet of the three, beauty itself is most enigmatic. We want

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Like I Mean It

I know a non-Catholic who has been exposed to the Catholic faith pretty heavily for years, but who still has no interest in becoming a

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Columnists
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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Religion
Guest Writer

Another Path to Holiness

Guest post by Pam Ward When I think of a holy person, it is Mother Theresa who comes foremost to my mind. She is a

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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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Columnists
Godwin Delali Adadzie

Humility Still Matters

In our so-called enlightened society of the 21st century, many people keep making the unfortunate mistake of confusing humility for low self esteem, meekness for

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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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Spirituality
Chelsea Zimmerman

Our Lover is Coming!

In response to a post I wrote here last month about contemplating death, a reader commented: [W]hy not look at death as a meeting with

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Columnists
Nathan Kennedy

To be human, be Catholic

I WANT TO BET YOU that if you took a really good, hard, honest, and inscrutable look at your own heart, you would come to

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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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Columnists
Anna Williams

Renewal

What has been is what will be,/ and what has been done is what will be done; / and there is nothing new under the

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Columnists
Joseph Koss

Desire and Fear

Desire to be despised, rebuked, calumniated, forgotten, ridiculed, wronged, and suspected. Fear being esteemed, loved, extolled, honored, praised, preferred to others, consulted, and approved. There

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The Call of a Lifetime

You’re kneeling in prayer or sitting in a quiet space and you wonder what God has in store for you. Well i personally do not

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The Cross from the Creche

We received a very curious Christmas card. Mary is tenderly holding the sleeping Christ child, her veil a crimson red. Behind her is the cross,

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