Embracing Silence in a Loud World
Let’s face it. We live in a loud world. Not the kind of loud that breaks the stillness of a bucolic spring day. This loudness…
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I’ve been stressed out. A full-blown, out-of-my-mind, can’t-think-straight stressed out. I’m 22 and one year out of college. People keep telling me that this is…
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Renewing the Spirit: A Catholic Guide to Overcoming Career Burnout
As the holiday season draws nearer, so do my responsibilities as a mother and college professor. Meeting work deadlines, traveling for business, attending committee meetings,…
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Community Service: How You Can Act on Catholic Social Teaching Every Day
During my many years of volunteer service (primarily in hunger relief organizations), I’ve witnessed a frustrating phenomenon. While people (admirably) tend to focus on opportunities…
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Bless Us, Oh Lord, for These Thy Gifts: The Holiness of Mealtimes
A few years ago, I was asked to sit on an alumnae panel at my high school to talk about life in college and beyond.…
read moreBenedictine Life in the 21st Century
Connection. It is something everyone desires and in today’s world it seems to happen 24/7 through the Internet and social media. But there are people…
read moreJesus in the Delivery Room
I love to talk about birth. A lot. I assume everyone wants to hear about birth, so at social gatherings, with people I’ve hardly met,…
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