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Sounding Board
Believe it or not, it can be hard to find a good seat at Sunday Mass. Unlike most churches I’ve attended across the United States in the past decade, where...
The authors of Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret (Orbis) lament that contemporary college students, seminarians, and people in the pews know very...
Growing up in a conservative evangelical church, the closest I came to understanding queer theology was in narrow, binary terms. Queer theology was theology...
Some years back, I watched a discussion unfold on social media about the devil. A Catholic woman anxiously asked her friends for prayers that could be used to...
If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make noise? If a person lifts their praises and petitions to God without...
One of the greatest influences in my life has been Catholic education. In my Catholic parochial grade school, I first learned what it meant to be a follower of...
Interestingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, only 42 percent of the population surveyed in a Pew Research Center poll responded that being part of a Catholic...
When I was in divinity school, all students were required to take a class titled “Negotiating Ministerial Boundaries,” a multi-day long certification earned...
On October 1, 2017, an assailant opened fire on a music festival in Las Vegas, killing more than 60 people and wounding hundreds of others. At our parish staff...
