Spirituality
Ryan Kraeger

Patience

Once again I let this blog sneak up on me. My first clue that it was my week to write an IT post was when

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Prayer
Theresa Noble

The Ship of Joy

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

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Columnists
Kelly Shircliff Williams

Just Be You

I did a lot of thinking in my idealistic twenties about how I’m going to start a revolution and change the world.  At times, as

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Movies
Abigail C. Reimel

What Are We Holding Onto, Sam?

I was inspired to re-post this article after reading Cristina Montes”s On Spe Salvi and The Lord of the Rings.  I would highly recommend that

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Columnists
Kristin Detloff

It’s Time to Find Your Featherbed

A couple of months ago I logged-on to find the following e-mail appropriately shuffled into my high priority inbox: “How you do keep your hope? 

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Columnists
Edmund Mitchell

We Need More Death

Mary Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour  You will die. A friend of mine sells life insurance. He told me that every time someone new

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Columnists
Ryan Kraeger

Clothe the Naked

“The Lord showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, whie Satan stood at his right hand to accuse him.

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Columnists
Fabiola Garza

Perks of Embarrassment

After almost a year of ballet I’m still super horrible. I never realized how physically demanding it was, how literally every muscle in your body

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Religion
Cristina Montes

St. Pedro Calungsod

Update:  The canonization of St. Pedro Calungsod can be watched via livestream on October 21, 2010  here. The Pope will canonize a teenage Filipino martyr

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Religion
Edmund Mitchell

God and Dice

This is not how you use dice. You roll dice. In games with dice, the dice and chance are the masters of the outcome.  We

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Family
Ryan Kraeger

Holpin’

As I was on leave over the last few weeks I spent a lot of time back home on the family farm, helping with projects

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Spirituality
Godwin Delali Adadzie

New Catholic Generation

One of the main reasons why I love the youth, especially Catholic youth, is because I am one. My heart is always on fire to

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Life
Amanda Sloan

Suffering and True Love

As a youth minister one of the number one questions teens ask me is, “Why do people suffer?”  It is a fair question, and one

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Columnists
Mary C. Tillotson

On Condoms and Confession

Many of the pro-abstinence, anti-contraception types (mostly Catholics) will say that the “Don’t have sex, but if you do, use contraception” approach to reducing teen

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Bioethics
Chelsea Zimmerman

The Weak Who Shame the Strong

In his first letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul explains how, when God calls people, he does not base his decision on human criteria – 

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Saint Augustine of Hippo by Philippe de Champaigne
Spirituality
Godwin Delali Adadzie

Homilies from an African Priest

The famous African bishop, doctor and Father of the Church, Saint Augustine of Hippo, once said, “If you believe what you like in the gospels,

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