FIND COMMUNITY 1. Stay Connected to your Past: Maintain close relationships with those who have encouraged and supported you up to this point in your faith life (family, HS/college friends, teachers, campus ministers, etc.) 2. Go to Mass every Sunday: Find people to go to Mass with—do not regularly sit alone; form a small community… Read More Top 10 Ways to Stay Catholic after College
Pope Francis delivered a wonderful homily earlier today on making a “culture of encounter” and the duty of all to do good. The full report from Vatican Radio can be read here, but this is the key quote: “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of… Read More The Lord Has Redeemed All of Us
It has now been over five years since Vargha Taefi’s mother, Fariba Kamalabadi, was imprisoned on absurd, baseless charges by Iran’s tyrannical regime. As I mentioned in my previous post on the subject, her real crime is being a member of the Baha’i faith. And for that crime, she has been subject to remarkable cruelty… Read More Five Years Too Many: A Son’s Anguish
In an address earlier today, Pope Francis made comments that are sure to shake Catholic free market enthusiasts down to their boots. The Pope pointed to technological and other forms of progress that have accompanied modernity, but he also said “we must acknowledge that the majority of the men and women of our time continue… Read More Pope Francis: Worship God, Not the Free Market
It has now been five years since Iran’s brutal, authoritarian regime imprisoned the Yaran, the seven leaders of the Baha’i community in Iran. My hope is that with all the focus on religious liberty in the US among Catholics and the Bishops, Catholics will come together with others in the global community who believe in… Read More Five Years Too Many
Since Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder yesterday afternoon, I’ve been reading and reflecting on the news. There’s no way to make sense of human life taken in such a horrific way, but here are five thoughts that are resonating in my heart. 1) The juxtaposition of Mother’s… Read More Five Reflections After the Conviction of Doctor Kermit Gosnell
The Maya Ixil community, with the support of the Guatemalan community, and the international community, has just won a monumental achievement in the development of international human rights law. Thirty-one years after the Guatemalan military wiped more than 500 indigenous villages off the map, General Efrain Rios Montt, the head of state at the time… Read More Breaking: General Efrain Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide in National Courts of Guatemala
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