By Catholic Herald Staff
Traveling a long distance to attend the March for Life? Fill the hours with these informative and inspiring pro-life podcasts.
1/16/20
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By Christina Capecchi
The story of my journalism career is here in the stories of strangers. It’s what I made of their accounts, what happened between the handwritten interview notes and the published newspaper articles.
1/14/20
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By Katie Prejean-mcgrady
I was cleaning the kitchen, the TV on in the background, the faces of glitz and glam celebrities flashing across the screen, the sounds of applause filling the room as the Golden Globes played.
1/10/20
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By Fr. Jack Peterson
During the Christmas season, the church wisely chooses to celebrate the baptism of the Lord. It is an event that demands a little unpacking.
1/9/20
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By Colette Lienhard
The Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade in January 1973 has forever changed America. Being born after Roe v. Wade, I am keenly aware that for every four people we see, there is one person missing. Who would that person have become? What would they have done? What was God’s plan for them?
1/9/20
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By Andrew Montanaro
Jesus is “the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24). St. Augustine notes that, while the same can truly be said of each of the divine persons, it is the second person of the Trinity that Scripture usually refers to as “wisdom” (“De Trinitate” viii. 4). This revelation in the New Testament has deep roots in the Wisdom books of the Old Testament, which are arguably the least well-known books of sacred Scripture. In them is one of the great Christological threads running through the Bible, from Job through Proverbs, Sirach and Wisdom of Solomon, and culminating in the Gospels.
1/9/20
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In the lead-up to New Year’s, I was working on what I saw as a pretty impressive list. And it was getting more grandiose the more I thought that this should be a list worthy of a new decade. Then it was all turned upside down by a certain Cistercian monk at Holy Cross Abbey in Berryville, Father James Orthmann.
1/8/20
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By Elizabeth Foss
What do you want this year to look like? Prayerfully, what does God call you to create this year? How will you grow into your vocation in the next 12 months? Don’t google a list. Don’t create a list of what you think someone wants from you. Don’t work up a list that you think someone you admire would create. Make your list. This is your life. You were created for a unique purpose. Spend some time discerning what that purpose is.
1/2/20
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By Effie Caldarola
As we trudge into 2020, a year that promises to be just as rancorous politically as the year we are ending, I find myself thinking about forgiveness.
1/2/20
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Contrition for sin begins with a simple awareness — there’s a terrible chasm of difference between who I am and who I know I ought to be. Everyone with a healthy conscience knows the feeling. We think, speak or act in an inconsiderate, self-absorbed or spiteful manner and then wonder, “Where did that come from?”