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If the circus is a ritual, “The Greatest Show” describes the mass.
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Life has a way of sorting out your priorities for you. We all have a story we tell ourselves and maybe others about what’s really important to us, what our core values are. A lot of times, that story reflects what we want to be true about ourselves, but maybe not our reality. Usually (at…
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A confession: I get a lot of books from people, and most of them, I never read. (I also give a lot of books to people. If you’re one of them, let this absolve you of any guilt you feel for not reading them.) I appreciate the thoughtfulness behind the gift of a book, and…
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My first lesson in this Jubilee Year of Mercy came from a hairless Mexican dog and her owners over the New Year’s weekend. Chica, the dog in question, is owned by friends of ours. Over Thanksgiving, we house- and dog-sat for them, and my daughter, always passionate about dogs, bonded with Chica and her brother…
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What does mercy look like to me? Every time I’m confronted with my own failings, which is a lot, it’s remembering that God loves me more. It’s also every small kindness I receive and every chance to offer one to others. What does mercy look like to my family? It’s every person who lets on…
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Today, Pope Francis inaugurated the Jubilee Year of Mercy to help us bring to the forefront the role of divine mercy in our life and to “rediscover the infinite mercy of the Father who welcomes everyone and goes out personally to encounter each of them.” Mercy is the place where God’s perfect love meets our…
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I have no special insight to share about the synod on the family, which is in its final week. I see the same stuff you see: that there are tensions between two positions that seem irreconcilable – those who see the primacy of asserting the truth of what the law requires and the Church teaches…
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Originally posted on Millennial: We’re still weeks away from Pope Francis’ highly anticipated trip to the United States. But Stephen Colbert is already giving the pope a warm welcome, thanking him for his commitment to a Church for the poor and about the poor.
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