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The Catholic Church supports interfaith endeavors. However, when Catholics dialogue only to evangelize, this can make the people with whom we exchange ideas feel uncomfortable, belittled, and judged.
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We inherit stories through scripture. And we inherit ways of interpreting them. Many of us have inherited a misogynistic interpretation of Eve’s story long before we ever read the Book of Genesis.
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October 15 marks Teresa of Avila's feast day. Teresa suffered from severe illness throughout her life—which included intense chronic pain, and the emotional and psychological suffering that often accompanies it.
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Leaving is something Catholics do regularly. If former Catholics were a denomination, they would be among the largest religious groups in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America.
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Military tactics and technologies have changed considerably since the first centuries of the church, or even the Middle Ages. And the church’s moral teachings have also developed.
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Religious support for contraception in the mid-20th century was often less about women’s autonomy than about the Cold War narrrative that American capitalism and religion produced happier, freer human beings than godless communism.
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The parable of the wedding feast in Matthew’s gospel is jarring. Instead of love, community, and family, the parable talks about murder, destruction, and exile.
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Newman believed that church teaching is the result of both the laity and bishops “breathing together” (conspiratio). Therefore, a primary responsibility of both bishops and popes is to listen carefully to the faithful before teaching doctrine.
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Are the new U.S. detention facilities most like internment sites, immigrant gulags, or concentration camps? A debate such as this is probably not one a healthy democratic society should be having.
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Some Marian titles indicate that she is a protector and a defender: Mirror of Justice, Seat of Wisdom, Solace of Migrants, and Comfort of the Afflicted. Marian images also carry specific messages for certain situations and certain people.
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Children’s Bibles often place a heavy emphasis on obedience. According to pastor Meredith Anne Miller, this isn’t helpful for cultivating faith in kids who are still getting to know God.
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While theologians hold differing views on the spiritual lives of animals, scripture and the witness of the saints point to a belief that they, too, are in relationship with God.
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800 years after the death of St. Francis, our fractured and hyper-individualistic culture can learn a lot from his spirituality.
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In the summer of 2018, the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith took steps officially to forbid support for the death penalty by faithful Catholics, adding a new directive to the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
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Suicide prevention and ministry to those who have been affected by it are important responsibilities for Catholics and the church as a whole. Yet suicide is often misunderstood, which can unintentionally contribute to stigma, silence, and uncertainty.
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As Jesus demonstrated, anger itself is not a sin. There are situations in which anger can be sinful, but it is often a natural human response to harm. In such cases, anger can lead to deeper communion with God’s Spirit to cocreate a better world.
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𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝟲, 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟲 𝗼𝗳 𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲! 🎤▶️ : "𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑠?"
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💡What does it really cost communities when our leaders vote for a federal budget that hands out trillions of dollars in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy — and they pay for it by cutting the programs our communities rely on to survive?
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Sr. Eilis McCulloh, HM is joined by our guests:
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✨ 𝗔𝗺𝗶𝘆𝘂𝗵 𝗧𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀 — Senior at Loyola University New Orleans, poet, and a 2026 Sr. Carol Coston, OP Fellow at NETWORK; she is organizing on the Gulf Coast for voting rights and against extractive industries.
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✨ 𝗥𝗲𝘃. 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘀 — United Methodist pastor organizing in the southern West Virginia coal fields alongside mineworkers, focused on environmental justice, poverty, and workers' rights .
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👉Listen in for a conversation that examines this budget's damage from the Gulf Coast to Appalachia — and what it takes to change systems and protect the people who are hit hardest.
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Many advocates of Christian patriarchy are eager to promote the idea that when you get married, you lose the right to say “no.” To most modern Catholics, this notion of sexuality is bizarre, exploitative, and horrific.
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At some point between the 1700s and our time, someone wrote a novena meditating on the Mary Undoer of Knots painting. In this novena, a daily rosary incorporates prayers to Mary.
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In an era when many civic exchanges unfold as jaded rhetorical jabs—and in a country where we’re too often bereft of spaces for in-person encounters—an earnest liturgical spirit surfaced on the South Side, if only for a moment.
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