New Year’s Resolution Challenge!
New Year’s Resolutions — there are plenty to go around. We’re all familiar with the typical resolutions of getting back in shape, changing our habits,…
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BARBARA — DAY 20: Sabbath
Over the weekend, I was thinking about the idea of “sabbath.” After two weekends away — traveling for a wedding and then work — it…
What Works: Are Affirmations Lying?
A reader, Janice J. Holladay, LPC, raised a great point the other day after reading my old column on radical honesty. She had just read…
What is the Church teaching regarding body piercing and tattoos?
The Church doesn’t have any strong feelings on body piercing or body art. While the Catechism emphasizes the respect for bodily integrity and warns against…
Intentional Chocolate
Many of us grew up being nursed to health with grandma’s chicken noodle soup. But ever wonder why it’s not quite the same when we…
Can I use birth control for medical reasons and not to prevent pregnancy?
The short answer to your question is: you are taking the medication prescribed by your doctor in order to regulate your menstrual cycle and ease…
Can you give us the lowdown on abortion. Why is it wrong? Is it always wrong? What about women’s rights and rape cases?
Catholic teaching holds that abortion is always immoral. This is a strongly held position and dates back to the earliest days of the Church. For…
A God Who “Gets it”
Beth didn’t get the job. She’d known it was competitive but she’d nailed the interview and was almost sure she’d get hired. It would mean…
Don’t Be a Jesus Glutton
Catholics believe in the “real presence of Christ” in the Eucharist, but as a concept I think it’s short-sighted at times. Not to knock the…
Soul Mates
During times of crisis, things can get overwhelming if you try to do it all yourself. At different times we’ve tried to remind one another…
