Religion
Theresa Williams

The Call to Holiness in Our Time

Recently, I was watching the movie There Be Dragons about St. Josemaria Escriva and the Spanish Civil War, and I began thinking about the call to

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Columnists
Matthew Higgins

Ain’t Nobody Got Time…Enjoy It

Pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin picking. It seems like I just finished putting away my bathing suit from summer vacation and already I’m seeing

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Life
Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

  One of the most difficult aspects of human existence to understand is the nature of love. We are born out of love and called

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Life
Lianna Mueller

Give Thanks Every Day

One of the first phrases we are taught to say is “Thank you,” and many children grow up writing thank-you notes. It is very important

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Columnists
Sean Connolly

Why?

Enviably, I recently canvassed a room full of young people, my students, about church attendance. The occasion was an all-school Mass earlier that day. A non-Catholic student broached

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Politics
Abigail C. Reimel

Pope Francis is Human

Last month I wrote a post analyzing the National Geographic cover story entitled “Pope Francis Remakes the Vatican”.  I read the article skeptically, expecting to come

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Columnists
Heather Anderson Renshaw

Music inspired by wife’s illness, recovery

While many newlyweds spend their first few months experiencing the joys and challenges of married life, Musician Stephen Sylvester and his wife, Afton, were struggling with a surprising

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Art
Kasia I.

Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder

Recently, I attended a talk about beauty. After asking his listeners about various things that they found beautiful (stars, music, the ocean), the speaker—a priest—presented

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Columnists
Nicene Guy

Morality and Love

What purpose does morality serve? This is a question I have been given reason to consider from time to time—in particular as I live in

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Life
Mary Proffit Kimmel

Rescue the Perishing

Now my soul is troubled.  And what shall I say?  Father, save me from this hour?  No:  for this purpose I have come to this

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Married Life
AnneMarie Miller

Why I Love the Song of Songs

It seems like we rarely hear about the Song of Songs anymore. At Mass, we read from this book only a couple times of the

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Art
Cristina Montes

Constructing Heaven on Earth

I became fascinated with old churches during my one-year stay in Europe. While I realize that Christ is no less present in a new church

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