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January 2017

January 19, 2017

So You’re Anxious About God’s Will: Three Thoughts on Figuring It Out

It’s not that I get anxious about things, it’s just that if I’m not...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

ThisCatholicGirl: A Shadow Play for the Internet Age

You might say that, without the traditionally comedic conclusion, I, along with...

September 09, 2016

Let It Go with a Little Help from My Friends

One of the critiques I have often heard, in one iteration or another, is that...

August 2016

August 23, 2016

The Catholic Church is Not Your Sports Team

Sometimes, it's the people you agree most with that you get into the most vitriolic...

August 01, 2016

Stories that Shape Us: Remembering Our Past and Our Communities

“We’re saving it for the next generation, you know, after us, because it's all disappearing”...

July 2016

July 25, 2016

The Habit of Being In: Rootedness and Moving Again

I am moving. Again. Counting college, this will be my twelfth move in eight years....

June 2016

June 23, 2016

Valid Marriages and Sacraments: Honest Deeds, Honest Words, and True Things

So, marriage has been a rather hot topic of late in the Church, what with...

June 09, 2016

Good Men Don’t Assault Women, Period.

***This obviously deals with a sensitive topic, and includes some of the victim’s own, validly...

June 02, 2016

Intellectual Custom, Pt. 2: The Truth of All Things

So, intellectual blind spots exist in all of us, largely due to intellectual...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Intellectual Custom: I Want to Be Like You, Or, Like, Not

Nicholas Kristof's The Liberal Blind Spot in the New York Times is a fascinating follow up...

May 27, 2016

Don’t Check Your Privilege

Culturally, there has been a lot of conversation about the topic of privilege. Macklemore even...

May 16, 2016

What Should We Call the SCOTUS Ruling?

Things I love: Babies, Facebook posts explaining legal decisions, my Alma Mater Thomas Aquinas College...