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In the Pews
Like too many people, I did not grow up with the benefit of observing a healthy relationship between my parents. I met my first spouse mere weeks after I found...
For Mary Novak, being the first lay executive director of NETWORK, a social justice lobby of Catholic sisters founded in 1972, is an “integrating role at this...
In 1917, Dorothy Day was the victim of political persecution as she joined activists in Washington, D.C. standing outside the White House with picket signs...
For most of 2024, voters braced themselves for an election between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. So when President Biden dropped out...
This past April, controversial conservative personality Candace Owens announced on social media that she had “recently made the decision to come home.” The...
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I went to the Christmas bazaar at our local Catholic parish. We admired the sugar cookies and crocheted ornaments but didn’t...
The rustling marsh grass parts as Courtney Fitzgerald trudges through the wetland, her boots sinking into the mucky soil. She pauses to survey the open expanse...
Tears pour down Luiz Mateus Dos Santos’ face as the Brazilian farmer tries to articulate his gratitude to the Pope Francis hospital boat. A short, muscular man...