Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

Marriage Formation: Synod Priority?

Marriage. A journey with the person you love, giving yourself freely, without reservation, in a life giving relationship for the rest of your lives. A

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Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

Desperately Seeking Community

Disclaimer: This piece is written in the style of a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew a junior demon, Wormwood. This is based on C.S.

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Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

Witnessing to the World

With the call to the new evangelisation, how do we pass on the faith in today’s world? In his 2014 Message for World Communications Day,

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Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

The Secrets to Happiness

How happy really are we today? How do we define that we have really ‘lived’? We live in a marketing led world – a place

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Bioethics
Chelsea Houghton

The Importance of Life Media

One of the downsides of being pro-life in 2013 is the negative stereotyping. Being”pro-choice” is so normalized and they seem to have the popular debate

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Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

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

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Prayer
Chelsea Houghton

Let Go and Let God

Lately I”ve suffered from writer”s block. I have no inspiration for what I”m most passionate about and normally makes me feel better – putting words

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Columnists
Chelsea Houghton

Abnegation

Abnegation. To be honest until recently I had no idea what that word meant. And probably not surprisingly since it is an idea that isn’t common

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Reasons to be Open to Motherhood

In honour of Mother’s Day… A fellow writer recently asked somebody to write something positive about motherhood. She said “Some of us not-yet-moms are scared

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How is your Prayer Life?

“Accustom yourself to pray this way and, God grant, soon you will nurture true prayer in yourself. Then there will be no need for rules.

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