The Freedom to Choose
Most Harry Potter fans will remember when Harry arrives at Hogwarts and sits in front of the whole school for every first year’s biggest...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Oct 243 min read
The Dangers of that Founding Myth
On Tuesday you read my thoughts on the myth of being founded as a Christian Nation . I purposely avoided the very large, very dangerous...
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Jenny Snarski
Oct 153 min read
An election season is prime time for virtue and values
In another reading for my “Art & Asceticism of Dialogue” graduate course, our class was assigned a reading from the book, I Never Thought...
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Jenny Snarski
Oct 83 min read
The Invitation to Dialogue: listen!
While I usually dread election season, this year my mindset has been almost completely transformed. This is almost completely thanks to a...
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Kelly Sankowski
Jul 293 min read
The Support and Challenge of Friends
Today we celebrate three of Jesus’s closest friends: Lazarus, who is described as “the one you love” (John 11:3); Mary, who performs the...
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Jocelyn E. Collen
Jul 133 min read
Shaking It Off
The story of the disciples being sent out two by two, without taking anything with them, is Good News! The Good News is that we don’t...
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Jennifer Delvaux
Jul 63 min read
Complacency, Complicity, and the Call
Prophets feel like something set solidly in the past. They have their time period – just like horse drawn carriages or gladiators or oil...
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Sara Spittler
Jun 292 min read
Vision
When we are children, we imagine endless possibilities for our play. With our imagination, we can be astronauts, chefs, royalty,...
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Jennifer Delvaux
May 183 min read
Pentecost Is Terrifying
Pentecost is terrifying. The Holy Spirit is terrifying. They are terrifying in the same way that shaking your principal’s hand or the...
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Corinne Horner
Dec 8, 20232 min read
How Can This Be?
Like many Catholic women, my relationship with Mary has had its ups and downs. Growing up, women are so often told to idolize Mary and...
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Elizabeth Kos
Nov 16, 20232 min read
Patroness of Parties
If there was a patron saint of partying, St. Margaret of Scotland should be it. As Queen of Scotland, she used her court and influence to...
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Allison Bobzien
Nov 1, 20233 min read
All Saints’ Day: Befriending the Saints
Not being raised Catholic, my understanding of saints was murky at best. I knew they were people whose lives honored God, whose faith...
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Sue Delvaux
Oct 21, 20231 min read
Diversity in the Ordinary
Today's Readings Here we are amid the fall, closing in on the cusp of the great Advent season with many of us perhaps enrolled in...
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Sue Delvaux
Sep 11, 20233 min read
A Look at The Eucharistic Revival Parish Experience
Perhaps many of you have heard of and some of you may have experienced the Eucharistic Revival in your parishes. An initiative of the...
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Madison Chastain
Aug 21, 20234 min read
World Youth Day - Mary, Mission, and Discernment
“During those days, Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to the town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah...
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Mary Beth Keenan
Aug 15, 20232 min read
To Hear and Bear the Word
The Gospel for the vigil mass of the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is only a few lines from Luke, chapter 11,...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Jun 25, 20233 min read
“Yes, and…”: Beautiful and Terrible Things
Today's Readings Today’s readings remind me of the popular improv game called “Yes, and.” I played the “Yes, and” game semi-regularly in...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Apr 29, 20233 min read
Drawn by Love to Love
Looking back on my earliest school years, I recall well a few bouts of serious separation anxiety. Despite my love of learning and my...
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Jessica Curbis
Mar 6, 20233 min read
Most Blessed Warrior, Jael
It is my greatest pleasure to introduce you to Jael, a warrior woman who killed a man with a tent peg. But first, because context is...
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Katie Davis-Crowder
Feb 22, 20234 min read
Rolling Down the Hill
During Holy Week 2021, I participated from a distance in my parish’s annual Stations of the Cross service. Afterwards, I found myself...
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