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September 1st, 2011
Standing With the Unemployed in Faith, Hope, and Solidarity
God calls us to announce the good news of God’s preferential option for the poor, for those who suffer the most among us. Indeed God’s love enfolds the entire human community equally and unceasingly, but ...
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August 30th, 2011
Facebook and I are not friends at the moment. We’ve been good acquaintances for years, overall no major qualms. If I had to classify us ...
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August 29th, 2011
Developing a Spirit-centered approach to service
For my first few years as a librarian, I felt richly rewarded, a shining star of helpfulness. In a nutshell, I get paid to give ...
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August 26th, 2011
What Not To Pack:
1. Your judgments:
You’ll find that some of your professors and classmates have a completely different perspective about political, social, religious, or spiritual issues than you do. While your reaction might be ...
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August 25th, 2011
One of the most popular columns I’ve ever written is about struggling with being on time. It led to a TV interview and, ...
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August 18th, 2011
Busted Halo sits down with the new youth catechism's publisher
Everyone registered for World Youth Day is getting a free copy of YouCat in their native language as part of their registration packet, as it is officially introduced in Madrid. When YouCat was launched back ...
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August 11th, 2011
You have just enough time left if you act now to join me in the Million PALA Challenge -- a national campaign to get ...
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August 10th, 2011
Busted Halo contributor Carolyn Martone goes on silent retreat. Find out what happens during the final days of her eight days in silence and reflection ...
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August 4th, 2011
The Busted Halo crew shares what they're listening to this summer.
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August 3rd, 2011
Ten years ago, if anyone told me I would attend a silent retreat to start the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, I would have ...
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August 1st, 2011
The pope has made several comments this year concerning vacations, which were highlighted in a piece on the Vatican Radio website. Summer is halfway over already, but ...
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July 29th, 2011
Ever since the Oslo attacks my heart has started racing a little faster every time I board the U-Bahn in the morning. It races even faster when I disembark and make the 10-minute walk through ...
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July 27th, 2011
Fleeing war and famine, fighting off attacks from bandits and lions, thousands of refugees are flooding out of Somalia on foot each week. Busted Halo contributor Laura Sheahen, a communications officer with the humanitarian aid ...
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July 22nd, 2011
"When our first child was born, my husband said, 'Now I have a son to avenge my family.' He named our baby boy Rambo."
I usually associate the birth of a baby with fuzzy booties, not ...
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July 20th, 2011
Hare Krishna old-timers keep the faith
Kusha Devidasi gaped in horror as her cat moved in for another kill. A vegetarian, Devidasi had tried everything to get him to stop devouring God's feathered creatures, even putting a bell around his neck. ...
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July 18th, 2011
Meet Busted Halo’s new editor-in-chief
I remember my first post-college work experience, which took me from my hometown in rural Pennsylvania to Jackson, Mississippi. I was a full-time volunteer in ...
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July 15th, 2011
Today brings the final book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, to a close as the last 250 pages ...
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July 14th, 2011
One of the things I notice whenever I spend time on retreat at a monastery (as I did a few weeks ago) is how much ...
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July 13th, 2011
When I came into the Catholic Church nine years ago, the farthest thing from my mind was how its rituals and liturgy might mesh so ...
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July 11th, 2011
I have J.K. Rowling to thank for much of my literary upbringing. Without the Harry Potter series, I am not sure that I ...
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