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Living Forward, Understanding Backward: How Faith, Marriage and Hardship Shaped John and Margaret Kelly's Lives
Margaret and John Kelly, pictured here with their grandchildren. (Photo provided) Success, John Kelly will tell you, makes faith easy to ignore. He and his wife, Margaret, spent years doing exactly that, building careers, raising a family and going to Mass on Sundays, while God waited somewhere further down the list. Then life intervened in ways they could not have planned for, and the question they had never thought to ask became impossible to avoid: if everything can be tak

Sheryl Tirol
6 days ago6 min read


The Power of Being Seen: How a Simple Prayer at a 1985 Retreat Changed My Life
At 17, I felt invisible — until one youth leader’s prayer opened a door for the Holy Spirit that would ripple through generations. (Photo courtesy of Shannon Vall) By Shannon Vall In the summer of 1985, a lonely, sad 17-year-old girl found herself reluctantly heading west on Highway 36 toward a weekend teen retreat along the Colorado Front Range. She hadn’t chosen to go — her well-intentioned but insistent mother had made that decision for her. She arrived uneasy and lost, co

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Oct 29, 20253 min read


Why I Stopped Blaming God: A Catholic Mother's Story of Loss and Hope
Meg suffered her miscarriage in silence for a whole year, until God broke through, bringing healing and new life. (Photo: Lightstock) By...

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Jul 22, 20254 min read
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