by Sarah Albertini-Bond I have a memory from my days in grammar school when one of the nuns told us school kids in St. Matthias that the word Catholic meant “universal”. She went on to explain that Catholicism is so obvious, so universal, that’s why we called our church that name. In the spirit of [...]
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Check out the latest “In All Things…: Young Women & Catholicism” post at patheos.com by Rebecca Curtin!
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by Kate Henley Averett There’s this man who sits in Harvard yard with a poster demanding “9/11 truth NOW.” I’m not sure if he’s there everyday – I suspect not – but he’s there quite often, often enough that he’s become something of a fixture in the landscape for me in my four and a [...]
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by Jen Owens These readings fall on the same weekend as the diaconate ordination of my Jesuit colleagues who are in formation here at the Jesuit school in Berkeley. So the Second Reading feels particularly prescient. It describes the characteristics of a good priest–one who is humble and patient with others because of an awareness [...]
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By Kate Dugan I’ve just returned home to Evanston from a long weekend in Minnesota. I had the privilege of being on a very mini-book tour of two Benedictine schools in the land of 10,000 lakes–my alma mater, the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph on Thursday, and the College of St. Scholastica in [...]
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by Jessica Coblentz par⋅a⋅dox [par-uh-doks] –noun 1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. 2. a self-contradictory and false proposition. 3. any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature. 4. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion. A priest once told a [...]
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By Claire Bischoff My relationship to my Catholic identity has been a rocky one, at best. I oscillate between thinking I am crazy to align myself with this church and stubbornly refusing to leave because I do not want to let the earthly powers that be define who counts as a true Catholic. A few [...]
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By Felicia Schneiderhan Today’s Gospel reading is like a joke I’ve heard over and over again. Every time I think I know what it’s about; every time I forget the punch line. When the man comes up and asks Jesus, “What must I do to inherit eternal life?” something inside me slumps. Yeah, yeah, I [...]
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by Angela Batie People have never accused me of being “athletic.” I learned early on that I was far more inclined toward music and acting than sports. Sports required some semblance of coordination and endurance, neither of which I possessed. While friends train for marathons, I’m much better at cheering loudly from the sideline. My [...]
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by Rebecca Curtin Sometimes I feel that when I talk about Catholicism I have a split personality. This split causes me to do odd things (like add frequent parenthetical statements when writing about my Catholicism). And, when I try to rationalize my “Catholic” ideas, I often wind up contradicting myself. Consider the following conversation I [...]
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By Johanna Hatch As someone who’s family has been shaped by divorce and remarriage, and as an advocate for same-sex marriage, this week’s Sunday readings seem like a particularly difficult pill to swallow. The first reading, from the second chapter of Genesis, is the creation story that so many are familiar with from our early [...]
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