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Spousal meaning of the body

By Mary Beth Bonacci
Have you heard? Science has isolated a substance that destroys a woman’s sex drive. It’s called “wedding cake.” So according to the (lame) joke, once a woman gets married, she loses interest in sex. Oddly, statistics have consistently proven this wrong. Back when I was researching these things, study after study showed the same thing:
9/11/25
Reading Time 4 min

A woman ahead of her time

By Sr. Constance Veit, LSP
For many years, our religious community was best known in the United States as half of a college sports parody comparing the worst teams to the Little Sisters of the Poor.
9/11/25
Reading Time 3 min

God comes first

By Fr. Richard Miserendino
Sept. 7 — Lk 14:25-33 One of my friends at the University of Mary Washington is the local rabbi who serves as the Jewish campus minister right down the street.
9/6/25
Reading Time 4 min

Selfless giving

By Fr. Joseph M. Rampino
Aug. 31 — Lk 14:1, 7-14 Christ in today’s Gospel commands that Christians “invite the poor, the crippled, the lame" to their feasts "because of their inability to pay," and in doing so, gives us a teaching that is both immediately beautiful and deeply challenging.
8/30/25
Reading Time 3 min

Music, like mercy, streaming down the river

By Christina Capecchi
It began as a low hum on the horizon, barely perceptible. Then a pulsing rhythm rose from the river — the brass and beat of a live band drifting through the humid summer air. The Capitol was coming.
8/27/25
Reading Time 3 min

Fading summer

By Elizabeth Foss
The big leaf hydrangeas were a bust this year. After a stunning year last year, we got five blooms total this year.
8/27/25
Reading Time 3 min

Rest from labor on Sundays, Labor Day

By Lucia A. Silecchia
Happy Labor Day! Whenever someone asks how I am, one of my most frequent replies is “Good, but busy.” That is rarely truer than it is in September.
8/27/25
Reading Time 3 min

How many will be saved?

By Fr. Steven Oetjen
Aug. 24 — Lk 13:22–30 Someone asks Jesus a question in today’s Gospel, and we could wonder about his motivations.
8/23/25
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Little Sisters of the Poor face new legal assault on religious freedom

By Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
A ruling against the Trump administration and the Little Sisters of the Poor is the latest salvo in a relentless campaign to impose the “contraceptive mandate” of the Affordable Care Act over sincerely held religious and moral objections.
8/19/25
Reading Time 4 min

The fire

By Fr. Jack Peterson, YA
Aug. 17 — Lk 12:49-53 Our Gospel begins with a line that stirs my heart to greater fervor. Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing!”
8/16/25
Reading Time 3 min

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