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3 Spiritual New Year’s Resolutions Inspired by St. John the Apostle
Above the altar of my hometown parish church, there is a beautiful stained-glass window depicting the Crucifixion. I couldn’t p...
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7 Saints to Help You Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
I confess: I’ve never been particularly successful at keeping New Year’s resolutions because I’m more successful at finding exc...
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What Are Indulgences?
What are indulgences? Let’s take a more common example to explain a larger theological point. Let’s say your daughter took your...
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Hands-on Faith: How Contact Builds Our Connection to Christ
My daughters love museums – a fact which has required practice, cajoling, and plenty of snacks – but, once sparked, the adven...
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6 Resolutions I’m Making for the Liturgical New Year
A couple of years ago, a friend told me that she and her partner were hosting a Liturgical New Year’s party on the Saturday nig...
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Marian Consecration: The What, Why and How
Marian consecration. Even for practicing Catholics who already know a thing or two about devotions to a saint, the phrase might...
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How to Make Friends With a Saint
St. Clare of Assisi is the patron saint of television – something I didn’t actually know in the 1990s when I was working in tha...
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The Generosity of Less: Learning From St. Clare This Advent
“Look closely, I say, to the beginning of the life of this admired one, indeed at the poverty of him who was wrapped in swaddli...
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Think You Have a Vocation to Religious Life? Here’s Where to Start.
On September 1, 2017, I made my final promise with the Paulist Fathers, promising to live the rest of my life as a member of th...
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