Comments on: Peaks and Valleys (and valleys, and valleys…): reflections on my Catholic identity http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/ Young Women & Catholicism Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jen http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/#comment-528 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:56:47 +0000 http://fromthepewsintheback.com/?p=1431#comment-528 I love this quote from Andrew Sullivan: “I stay because I believe. And I stay because I hope. What I find hard is the third essential part: to love. So I stay away when the anger eclipses that. But the love for this church remains through the anger and despair: the goodness of so many in it, the truth of its sacraments, the knowledge that nothing is perfect and nothing is improved if you are not there to help it.”

]]> By: A Catholic from a Pew in the Back http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/#comment-503 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:58:36 +0000 http://fromthepewsintheback.com/?p=1431#comment-503 When was the last time you visited the Sacrament of Reconciliation? God is calling us to conversion. To turn away from our sin and embrace grace! Rather than changing difficult core teachings about life and sexual behavior, my suggestion is that we embrace the call to holiness. And that is something we can do regardless of gender or sexual orientation. God loves us SO much! And what a blessing are the sacraments of grace! Bravi to those who stand up against the injustice done against women and the unborn in the horror of abortion.

]]> By: Dear Archbishop Wuerl « From the Pews in the Back http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/#comment-492 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:37 +0000 http://fromthepewsintheback.com/?p=1431#comment-492 [...] for city-based social services programs because of a recently passed marriage equality bill.  Kate Averett posted about this earlier, and I mentioned it in my piece for Patheos.  I wrote a letter to Archbishop [...]

]]> By: Emily Jendzejec http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/#comment-455 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:25:08 +0000 http://fromthepewsintheback.com/?p=1431#comment-455 Hey Kate!

Thanks for your words. I was so happy to have had the chance to meet you at the CTA conference . You are an inspiriing woman and I hope that CTA can be a continued community for you to feel lifted up in and energized. Peace to you!!

]]> By: Becky Fullan http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/#comment-454 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:59:23 +0000 http://fromthepewsintheback.com/?p=1431#comment-454 Oh Kate… yeah. Me too.

I’m glad you went to the Call to Action conference, though! I’d love to go sometime…

]]> By: Joe http://fromthepewsintheback.com/2009/11/19/peaks-and-valleys-and-valleys-and-valleys%e2%80%a6-reflections-on-my-catholic-identity/#comment-453 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:24:41 +0000 http://fromthepewsintheback.com/?p=1431#comment-453 That you endure is a tribute, a monument, to the person you are. The world is a far better place because you are in it.

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