Sr. Theresa Noble is a novice, aka nun in training, with a religious congregation of sisters in the US. She left her job in California with eBay to follow God two years ago. She currently lives in a convent in Boston where she prays, evangelizes, bakes bread and blogs at Pursued by Truth (http://pursuedbytruth.blogspot.com/).
Dear Discerning Young Catholic, Underachieving in the realm of morality has become so commonplace in our world that we have begun to pretend that sin is transcendent behavior just to make ourselves feel better. There is nothing transcendent about sleeping with someone on the first date, but these days an astounding number of romance movies [...]
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ of Buenos Aires is now Pope Francis. His simple name, two syllables, inspired by a simple Saint, communicates the spirit of this humble man who cooked his own meals in Buenos Aires, prefers to take public transportation, and consistently refused a place in the Roman Curia (until he was pressed [...]
On Ash Wednesday, in the Gospel of the day, Jesus tells us: “But when you pray, go to your inner room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. ” (Mt 6:6 ). It is not enough to go into our room and pray; we also need to shut the door. I think these [...]
When I was young, my mother would bring me to the library every week. Because I was a voracious reader, she did not worry whether I would read the books I checked out. But she did make a rule to help me choose the right books, and it has stuck with me ever since. I could [...]
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. – John 15:11 Joy is like an old ship that was headed for some adventure, but sunk instead like a slow rock under the heaviness of life, waiting to [...]
Our society is very fond of euphemisms. We like to wrap up difficult ideas and realities with words that make us feel warm and fuzzy, or at least distract us from the real meaning behind the word or phrase we are using. Phrases like pass away, friendly fire, and letting someone go, litter our vocabulary. We don’t even [...]
When I saw the reaction against Chick-fil-A last week, I was moved to come out of hiding in regards to the “gay marriage” debate. I could not remain silent after constantly seeing the mindless connection of bigotry with the widely held Christian position on marriage. It is becoming more and more common to portray the [...]
I have always loved Fresh Air with Terry Gross on National Public Radio (NPR). She is the perfect interviewer, intelligent, compassionate, and always knowledgeable about her interviewee. She has an amazing ability to keep her personality vanilla enough not to distract from the main attraction, the person being interviewed. Of course, she has bad days, [...]
Women’s religious orders have been on a divergent path, mirroring the same divide among the Catholic faithful, for some time. The division finally reached a point of eruption recently when the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith asked the LCWR, an organization of women religious, to reform some of its practices. As a [...]
Abortion, for many Christians, is clearly morally wrong. But the issue of contraception is not so clear. When This is shocking primarily because this issue is not really about contraception but something much more fundamental – religious freedom. Many secular, objective people are saying just that. Clearly, many of them do not agree with the [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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