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A Mission-Mindset
(Photo: Unsplash) I power my way past those walking casually. Need to beat them to the TSA Pre-Check lines. “Boarding pass?” I flash my...
Tanner Kalina
Mar 26, 20254 min read
Against the politics of grievance
(Photo: Unsplash) “Woke,” shorthand for what was once known as “political correctness,” helped fuel a grievance-based progressive...
George Weigel
Mar 26, 20253 min read
Why Men and Women’s Brains Are Wired Differently — And How It Affects Us All
(Photo: Pixabay, edited) My brother, a medical doctor, says that I got my MD from Google University. He is not wrong. I’m a theologian,...
Mary Beth Bonacci
Mar 25, 20255 min read
Is Your Pursuit of Happiness Making You Miserable?
(Photo: Pexels) Every decision we’ve ever made, are making now, or will make in the future is driven by our desire to be happy....
Paul Winkler
Mar 21, 20254 min read
Parents, Stay in the Ache of Longing this Lent
(Photo: Lightstock) I awoke with a start, my heart pounding, glad I had only dreamt that our four-year-old son fell off a 30-foot balcony...
Allison Auth
Mar 20, 20254 min read
The Henry J. Hyde Federal Building, please
(Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) DuPage County is one of the collar counties bordering Chicago. For years, it had the great good...
George Weigel
Mar 19, 20253 min read
How Fatherhood Showed Me the Depths of God's Love for Me
(Photo provided) By Drew Gai Becoming a father didn’t spontaneously make me a better Christian, but it has made it harder to be such a...
Guest Contributor
Mar 18, 20252 min read
Catholic Therapists' (Short) Guide to Denver Dating
(Photo: Unsplash) Dr. Michelle Connor-Harris and Mark Sanders St. Raphael Counseling If you’re a Catholic in your 20s, 30s or even 40s...
Catholic Charities
Mar 14, 20253 min read
The Works of the Father: How Jesus Teaches Us to Live
Jesus in the Storm on the Galilee Sea by Louis Janmot. (Photo: Public Domain/ArtVee) God has appointed us to bear fruit. In the...
Jared Staudt
Mar 13, 20254 min read
Demythologizing some recent Catholic history
(Photo: MTF-GR, Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) The National Catholic Reporter recently saw fit to mark Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s...
George Weigel
Mar 12, 20253 min read
How God Speaks Our Love Language: A Guide to Growing Closer to Him
(Photo: Unsplash) By Sarah Mendus To be Catholic is to experience the greatest love story ever written. God is endlessly pursuing us,...
Guest Contributor
Mar 7, 20256 min read
Thirty-Six Pounds of Honey, God’s Love and One Sweet Lenten Lesson
(Photo provided) It was a quiet Sunday evening, and I was making a cup of my favorite before-bed tea. My fellow missionaries had just...
André Escaleira, Jr.
Mar 7, 20254 min read
Lent and the purification of memory
President Ronald Reagan meets with Pope John Paul II during a visit to the Papal Library Vatican Pontifical Palace in 1982. (Photo:...
George Weigel
Mar 5, 20253 min read
Getting Ready for Lent as a Family
Thoughts on living liturgically at home and in the family (Photo: Unsplash) By Karin Middleton Associate Director of Family Ministry for...
Guest Contributor
Mar 4, 20253 min read
‘Why don’t I ask for your help more often?’: Resolving to Surrender to God this Lent
(Photo: Pexels, edited) By Stacy Baum I’ve had two MRIs in the past six weeks. The first — my first ever — was on my hip. And let me...
Guest Contributor
Mar 2, 20254 min read
The Power of Vulnerable Love: Caravaggio's 'The Taking of Christ' and Lent
The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio, c. 1602. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) With his hands still clasped in the posture of...
Elizabeth Zelasko
Feb 28, 20254 min read
Why We Need Lent: Advice from St. Benedict
Portrait of St. Benedict of Nursia by Herman Nieg, c. 1926. (Photo: Georges Jansoone/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain) Lent shouldn’t be...
Jared Staudt
Feb 27, 20254 min read
Your Invitations Matter: Evangelizing One Invite at a Time
(Photo: Lightstock) “Send.” Another text. Out into the ether. Never to be seen again. For laughs, I looked back at my “conversation” with...
Tanner Kalina
Feb 26, 20254 min read
Putting Americans in Iron Lungs Again?
RFK Jr. at his hearing to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons) The nomination of Robert F....
George Weigel
Feb 26, 20253 min read
Male and female he created… their brains?
(Photo: Adobe Stock) In high school, I remember having conversations with my first real boyfriend. I was accustomed to having long, deep...
Mary Beth Bonacci
Feb 25, 20254 min read
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