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You know how the NCAA Tournament always ends with the song “One Shining Moment”? What’s the opposite of one shining moment? Recently, a friend sent me a long message outlining how awful the Church is. How arrogant and sinful and greedy and power-hungry the institution is. I realized that that message came from a place
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What if the fundamental human failing is not greed or lust or pride, but the belief that we are not worthy of love, that we are not enough? I was reading a book on discernment pulled from the writings of Henri Nouwen, and he makes this point. But so does Brené Brown. So does Father
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Because Facebook knows marketing, I have ads for Catholic t-shirts. (Go figure.) The first one to pop up was of St. Catherine of Siena, with the caption: “Be you. Set the world on fire.” She is one of my top-5 favorite saints, but what I loved about that ad is that it showed up the
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During the height of the COVID pandemic lockdown, the state of Florida provided robotic pets to assisted living facilities as a way to provide companionship to residents who were forced into isolation by policies enacted to stem the spread of the deadly disease. That lockdown highlighted something aging advocates have known for quite some time:
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I’m putting my slow walk through the Gospel of John on pause for a few weeks; I’ve gotten up to the Passion narrative, and I’d rather read that closer to Holy Week. I’ve also found that I tend to find less in those stories that has gone unnoticed; because it is the center of the
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I feel bad for Michael Jordan. Jordan, of course, is one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the sport and one of the clutch performers of all time in any sport. You probably have heard the story that he did not make the varsity team during his sophomore year of high school;
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So when I said Ted Lasso was my new religion, I was joking. I mean, mostly. I’m approaching the impending third and likely final season of the Apple TV series with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Trepidation, because the series release date has been pushed back repeatedly, which seldom bodes well for the product.
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Here’s a little thing about the best chapter in the Bible: When I share these Bible things, they come from me reading through a book of the Bible and seeing what jumps out as something new or different or surprising. I’ve been through the four Gospels now, and for the most part, I come up
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Faith, like life itself, is not a spectator sport. It is meant to be lived and played, not just watched from the sideline. But how do we find our role, our position, in a Church that only values one role? For the last few decades, Catholics appalled by the Church’s response to the sexual abuse
Reading Francis 