Relationships
Guest Writer

Singles! Advent is Our Time

 Guest post by Lynn Hale. Be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open

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Dating
Guest Writer

How To Be Single

Guest post by Jacinta Boudreau. Dear single Catholic girls, pining for your wedding day, for that baby bump and (of course) that “forever man”… I’m

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Life
Nicholas Lye

Discernment Without Labels

Recently, I realise how traditional categories of “vocation”, or “states of life”, can sometimes be a distraction or hindrance to discerning one’s vocation in life.

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Columnists
Nicholas Lye

Leaving the Seminary

So just to set the record straight (since some have been speculating or asking indirectly behind my back), I did not leave the seminary for

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Family
Fr. Matthew P. Schneider, LC

5 Good Changes the Synod Could Make

Questions such as communion for the divorced and remarried, female deacons, and acceptance of homosexual relationships have dominated the media discussion about the Synod that

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Life
Morgan McFarlin

When Jealousy Threatens Joy

Well folks, summer is nearly over – also known as “Wedding Season”. Now, I love weddings. The dressing up, the sacraments, the love, the tears.

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Life
Morgan McFarlin

Living Life As It Is

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for

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Columnists
Arleen Spenceley

Thoughts On Being Alone

I sit today in a silent church, the only one in the pew. The only one in the building. I think about the time I

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Single Life
Amanda Sloan

Not Alone: Envy and Singlehood

Just in case you haven’t seen it, there is a wonderful series going on in the blogosphere called the “Not Alone Series”. The writers are

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Family
Molly

Pew Isolation

I recently had dinner with three fabulous girls. One is married, the other two are single. Our conversation turned towards the single life and we

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Dating
J.R. Baldwin

Not So Complicated

Flying home, the college lady next to me mentioned she was in a “complicated” relationship with someone back home. I smiled and said I’d been

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Columnists
Nekeisha Christopher

God’s Gift to Women

…. at least this woman. I know that statement is rarely if ever viewed positively but that is who I want my future husband to

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Single Life
J.R. Baldwin

Christ, My Wingman

The morning after my future sister’s wedding, my fiance and I attended the family brunch and were asked the question: short or long engagement? B.

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Date the Fat Guys, Ladies

In what can only be described as “true love,” I agreed to marry my fiance without ever dancing with him. Perhaps this seems impossible, improbable,

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Columnists
Julie Machado

Is Being Single a Failure?

A wise friend once asked me, “Do you want to marry him or do you just want to get married in general?” Am I really

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Columnists
Guest Writer

Love the V-Day

 Guest post by Lynn Hale. How I Learned to Stop Wearing Black and Love the V-Day: A Perennially Single Gal’s Perspective We all know how

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Single Life
Fabiola Garza

Advice to Singletons

Dear Miss. Fabi, My aunt asks me every Thanksgiving if I finally have boyfriend. I feel peeved, dismayed, bereft. What should I do? Sincerely, Single

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