Life
Amanda Sloan

For the Hopeless Heart

Dear child, I see the good in you. Satan would love nothing more than for you to get lost in your sin and shame. I

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College
Abigail C. Reimel

Opening Hands

Before I left for college, I wrote about how my tendency to control and plan every aspect of my life often hurt more than it

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Columnists
Elizabeth Teixeira

Family Life: A Call for Volunteers

Wait…you want me to be involved? This week was our parish’s Ministry Fair. They have been publicizing this fair for weeks.   When we headed over

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Columnists
Matthew Heinrich

The Experience of Translating

Foreign languages, I realize, are not for everyone. Many can go throughout their whole lives content to read Scripture in their native language. I certainly

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Columnists
Theresa Noble

A Defense of Indulgences

When I first heard about indulgences I was pretty skeptical; they can sound so cold, clear-cut and strangely precise in an imprecise world. Now that

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Spirituality
Sr. Lisa Marie

Pharisees, Publicans and a Pope

This week, an in-depth interview with Pope Francis was released in Jesuit publications around the world. In the opening question, “Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?”,

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Religion
Cindy Bird

Losing Interest in Religion?

Someone close to me, who left the Catholic Church a long time ago, recently said something along the lines of, “I just got to a point where I

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What Do You Smell like?

You probably did not miss Pope Francis’ recommendation that bishops should smell like their sheep. What may have been missed is the universal call to

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Columnists
Sean Connolly

The Post about Pride

Have you ever thought about yourself like you think about others? People can be idiots, prigs, jerks, crazies. People can just get on your nerves,

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