Laura Stephens is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and is studying to become a physician assistant at DeSales University. She thinks God, her family, her friends, Catholic Social Teaching, writing, movies, cooking, and doing yoga are pretty awesome.

Helping Along the Border

The U.S.-Mexico border has always been a hub for immigration and a point of political contention. Most recently, an explosion in the number of children…

Look at Me Like a Human Being

Last summer, I spent a month interning as a medical translator for migrant farmworkers on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It wasn’t the typical summer…

My Choice and Hers

This is a hard article for me to write. It’s about one of the worst things I’ve ever done, or not done, actually. In advance,…

SuperPope

I’ve always loved superheroes. Mostly because my dad would read old Marvel comics to my brothers and me. (We converted my mom to comic nerd-dom…

Hunger — In Human Form

It’s difficult to write about hunger. First, hunger isn’t a pleasant topic. It challenges us to ask hard questions about how we meet everyone’s basic…