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February 22nd, 2012
Asking young adults why they attend church on Ash Wednesday
Every year on Ash Wednesday, Catholic churches are filled with people receiving ashes. More people attend church on this day ...
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February 22nd, 2012
"What are you giving up for Lent?" is not a question I heard growing up in my atheist home. It’s second nature for most Catholics, though -- to give up some favorite thing (like chocolate ...
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February 15th, 2012
It’s that time of the year again. Most ...
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February 14th, 2012
Busted Halo's Lenten Calendar
Traditionally, Lent was a time for personal conversion leading up to Easter, during which Christians practiced the spiritual disciplines of fasting, praying and almsgiving to strip away all that is unnecessary and become more mindful ...
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February 2nd, 2012
As the viral video "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus," by Jefferson Bethke, approaches 18 million views, I will add my response ...
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January 23rd, 2012
We all know the drill. We should go to ...
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January 19th, 2012
It was all of 13 minutes after midnight on Tuesday night when I went to look up something in Wikipedia... even though I knew the ...
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January 18th, 2012
Hearing God's call and trusting where it leads
Let’s talk about the New Year. If you’re like me, you picked up a few magazines with promising headlines like “Finding the New You in ...
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January 16th, 2012
Since I wrote for Busted Halo about Mitt Romney's first run for president in 2008, much has changed in the public landscape regarding knowledge ...
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January 8th, 2012
Let’s get one thing clear: I like the taste of meat. I like double bacon cheeseburgers. I like steak so rare it moos. On Thanksgiving ...
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January 6th, 2012
We are told it is natural to thirst for fulfillment in aligning our life with God's plan for us and to thirst for the kingdom ...
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January 4th, 2012
Reconciling prayers of petition with the idea of God's Will
When we speak to God are we affecting His plans? Are we influencing the future? And if not, why do we persist in asking God ...
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January 1st, 2012
(1915-2011)
“Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matthew 5:9)
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Beatitudes, as well as ...
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December 23rd, 2011
A closer look at how several women break the pattern of male ancestors in the Gospel's account of Jesus' genealogy
A defining Gospel passage during Advent is the genealogy text from Matthew's Gospel (1:1-17). At first glance, these verses simply appear to be ...
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December 20th, 2011
For families divided by politics or religion, gathering on the holidays provides both challenges and opportunities
My relatives are an eclectic bunch, pretty evenly split -- to use crude and somewhat useless political labels -- between Left and Right; our religious diversity includes Catholics, Mormons, evangelicals, United Church of Christ members ...
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December 14th, 2011
In the back pew of the adoration chapel, I folded my arms and slouched before the God who wouldn't talk to me. It was Advent, ...
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December 8th, 2011
Many "alternative" gift articles suggest non-gifts -- things like giving to charity in the person's name, or giving service rather than a thing -- but choosing a present specifically for another person, wrapping it playfully ...
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November 22nd, 2011
A helpful tool to encourage a more grateful attitude towards life
This is the last column to run before Thanksgiving, so I want to talk to you about gratitude. I could write a dozen columns about gratitude in various forms; for this column, I'm going to ...
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November 18th, 2011
I’m a proud alumnus of a Jesuit school -- Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. One thing the Jesuits are very good at doing ...
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November 16th, 2011
The new translation of the Mass is coming to a parish near you. Here are the changes you need to know about.
If you're headed to Mass during the upcoming Advent and Christmas seasons, you're going to notice some changes. Starting November 27 the Roman Catholic Church ...
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