The other day I was watching the reality television series Bachelor in Paradise, a show in which ex-contestants of the Bachelor or Bachelorette meet up in...
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In America, we are known for desiring quick results. Weight loss ads fill magazines and take up space during television breaks, promising fast change with...
The other night I texted my friend and asked him, “Do you ever want to change the world?” The thought had come to me in a burst of inspiration. I...
Over the past week, friends and acquaintances, news media and Catholic media have been all over this women deacons story. It’s exciting, no doubt, and my...
The climax of Flannery O’Connor’s classic short story “Parker’s Back” hinges on a misunderstanding. Parker thinks his religious...
Catholicism hasn’t always come easily to me. As a religion major at a liberal arts college and then a woman at a divinity school where the curriculum was...
I wanted to convert to Buddhism when I was 17. Raised by a Catholic family and forced to attend religious education classes until I was almost 13, I’d had...
I spent my entire life in public schools, and when I started at Loyola University Chicago, I was unaware that retreats were a regular part of Catholic schools...
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Easter Break the box and shed the nard; Stop not now to count the cost; Hither bring pearl, opal, sard; Reck not what the poor have...
Every day of Lent (minus Sundays), U.S. Catholic will bring you words of wisdom and questions for reflection from different spiritual writers, from C.S. Lewis...
