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Fact Check: Have You Heard?
Picture from Pixabay It is a sad fact that in an age of ample communication, so many sources of information cannot be trusted. As a...
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Apr 12, 20242 min read


England’s Puberty Blocker Decision
Article: England’s puberty blocker decision is ‘important news,’ experts say This article is from March 21,2024 that I am sharing. My...
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Apr 5, 20241 min read


Two Nuns Have a Message for Catholics Angry About Their Ministry To Immigrants
“Norma Pimentel, M.J., the executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, Tex., has become a primary...
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Feb 19, 20221 min read


Rain Gardens Are a Practical, Ecological And Theological Solution For Houses Of Worship
“Rain gardens, which have deeper roots than grass, “not only soak up rainwater, but they also do a little bit of filtration of the...
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Feb 11, 20221 min read


American Catholics Need to Shed Some Habits to Get in The Synodal Spirit
“The pope said, "You have come by many different roads and from different Churches, each bearing your own questions and hopes," thus...
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Feb 5, 20221 min read


That Helplessness You're Feeling Is A Trauma Response
“This pandemic has made the past two years of life and living feel heavy. This is not to say that life was anything close to easy before...
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Feb 1, 20221 min read


Article: Find Joy, Bring Glad Tidings, Unleash Love Into the World
“Sometimes we want to erase things we do not like or accept about ourselves or others. Fr. Bill who thought he could change his nature,...
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Jan 24, 20221 min read


A Clean Energy Future: How Hawaii Is Sparking The Push
"Sixty percent of electricity in the U.S. comes from fossil fuels, like natural gas and coal. Today on the show, guest host Dan Charles...
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Jan 21, 20221 min read


What to expect in the world of US politics in 2022
“If last year began with the hope that normalcy might return, a hope that was often thwarted, this year the politics of the nation are...
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Jan 3, 20221 min read


Ten things Pope Francis and Catholic social teaching taught me about the economy
“Tony Annett, a former speechwriter for the International Monetary Fund and an Irish Catholic, traces the roots of Catholic social...
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Dec 29, 20211 min read


What losing Build Back Better means for climate change
“With billions of dollars for clean energy, the Build Back Better legislation has the potential to substantially and rapidly cut...
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Dec 20, 20211 min read


Pope Francis thanks New Ways Ministry in recent correspondence
“In two letters to New Ways Ministry this year, Pope Francis commended the organization for its outreach to the LGBTQ community and...
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Dec 2, 20211 min read


The Pope, the President, and Paige Francis and Biden speak the language of sports.
“Lost in threads of contested interpretations on social media was the fact that Biden was speaking to Pope Francis in one of their common...
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Nov 2, 20211 min read


Botching Biden’s AgendaCentrist Democrats threaten the budget-reconciliation bill
“The Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget-reconciliation bill is now under consideration in Congress. A key piece of President Joe Biden’s...
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Sep 28, 20211 min read


We have to be willing to talk about gender and ordination. But let’s first understand the tradition.
“In the late winter of 1995 Peter Hans Kolvenbach, superior general of the Society of Jesus, convened a general congregation—the global...
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Sep 16, 20211 min read


HOW HAS THE PANDEMIC CHANGED YOU? Breaking the stigma around mental health.
“How has the pandemic changed you? This question can feel loaded, as though our answers should contain revelatory insights or...
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Aug 24, 20211 min read


THE GOP CAMPAIGN TO MAKE ELECTIONS LESS FREE -Voters are supposed to choose their politicians
“In backlash to historic voter turnout, as of late May state legislators had introduced 389 bills to restrict voting in 48 states in the...
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Aug 10, 20211 min read


IT SHOULD NOT TAKE SO MUCH TO CONVICT POLICE - Justice requires transformation.
“Nearly a year after the death of George Floyd, a jury found his killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, guilty of all...
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Jul 27, 20211 min read


Social justice Catholics should reclaim rhetoric of objective truth, goodness
“Many of our ethical discussions involved snappy refutations of imaginary relativists. I say "imaginary" because while soft relativism is...
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Jul 13, 20211 min read


Why We Protest - Paying attention is the first step toward justice.
“In the United States, we tend to call such events “protests,” “demonstrations, or “marches” when we like them—and “riots” when we...
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Jun 29, 20211 min read
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