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2016-05-12T08:10:35-06:00

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Finding My Way Back to Fatima, and Down the Road

Last updated on: May 12, 2016 at 8:10 am By Joanne McPortland

“Tell everybody that God gives His graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from her, . . . for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to her.” ~ A message from the Lady of Fatima, according to Lucia Tomorrow is the optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima, the 99th anniversary of the Lady’s first appearance to three children minding their sheep in a bowl-like vale on a dusty Portuguese afternoon. The children,... Read more

2015-05-20T14:05:29-06:00

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Depressed and Catholic: Learning It’s OK to Live

Last updated on: May 20, 2015 at 2:05 pm By Joanne McPortland

If you “live with major depression,” you understand what a paradoxical phrase that is. The disease of depression may not ever express itself in completed suicide, or even in attempts, plans, or ideation. But the voice of this disease is anti-life. And it is insidious as hell. Undiagnosed or untreated, we try to silence that YouWantToDieYouKnowYouDo brain elevator music with the people’s pharmacopeia of numbing agents: alcohol, sex, food, rock n roll, self-injury, drugs. The problem is they’re all little... Read more

2015-05-01T12:13:07-06:00

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No Good Guys, No Bad Guys: Fr Greg Boyle on the Policing We Need

Last updated on: May 1, 2015 at 12:13 pm By Joanne McPortland

I don’t know anybody who’s said this better. Whoever you are, whatever your politics or race or social status or experience with the competing forces of order and disorder in this broken world, please read Fr Greg Boyle SJ’s op-ed in yesterday’s LA Times. If we think crime is the vocabulary of the bad guy, then we deploy special troops to round up a bunch of them. Our default assessment of Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore, or the shooting of... Read more

2015-04-22T12:56:16-06:00

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5 Reasons Why Catholics (of All People!) Should Make Earth Day Holy

Last updated on: April 22, 2015 at 12:56 pm By Joanne McPortland

Today, Earth Day, should be a holy day of obligation for Catholics. That’s not exactly a majority opinion, I know. To look around the blogosphere this week, you’d get the notion that many Catholics consider Earth Day—and anything even vaguely approaching concern for non-human creation—to be a communist Hollywood pagan plot, a form of idolatry perpetrated by no less an antichrist than That Guy in the Vatican (cf. Maureen Mullarkey’s, um, malarkey at First Things). At the very least, it’s... Read more

2015-06-14T22:25:57-06:00

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What’s Really Wrong with Catholic Religious Education? Everything. UPDATED

Last updated on: June 14, 2015 at 10:25 pm By Joanne McPortland

[UPDATE: A year later, on the way to LA RE/Congress 2015, I’m still asking these questions. You don’t need to comment with last year’s arguments, many of which were convincing, once y’all realized I wasn’t serious about wiping children’s catechesis off the map. But I will be in Anaheim this year looking for signs that lifelong catechesis of adults is A Thing deserving of even half the energy we put into supplying training, resources, and networking support for making kids... Read more

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2016-05-02T10:50:36-06:00

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The Cleaning Crew: 3 Advent Allies for Spiritual Warriors

Last updated on: May 2, 2016 at 10:50 am By Joanne McPortland

So here I am, sitting in the clean and light-filled kitchen of my new apartment in Southern California, basking in the blessing of engaging in the simplest of pleasures that I had denied myself the worst of the hoarding. Making breakfast. Doing dishes. Taking a shower. Doing laundry, and hanging the clean clothes in an empty closet. Sleeping stretched out on a bed with clean sheets. Sweeping the floor. Seeing the floor. This week has been a glimpse of heaven,... Read more

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2016-05-02T10:50:48-06:00

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The Meaning of Marriage: A Question of Standing

Last updated on: May 2, 2016 at 10:50 am By Joanne McPortland

What, if anything, the Supreme Court decides on the marriage cases being argued today and tomorrow Read more

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2016-05-02T10:50:56-06:00

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Cardinal Dolan: Neither Hypocrite nor Traitor, But Witness

Last updated on: May 2, 2016 at 10:50 am By Joanne McPortland

Predictably, there’s been vehement reaction to the NY Times Sunday report that Catholic institutions in the Archdiocese of New York have had long-standing health care contracts that cover contraceptives and abortions for employees, in spite of Cardinal Dolan’s vigorous leadership of the fight against implementing the HHS Mandate. Read more

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2016-05-02T10:51:06-06:00

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Lord, Make Me an Amateur Catholic

Last updated on: May 2, 2016 at 10:51 am By Joanne McPortland

“Really?” That’s my grandson’s new response to any parental pronouncement. It’s time for your bath. Let’s put away your toys. We’re out of tortillas. That ink doesn’t wash off. “Really?” Many of the big names in Catholic media—including my blogparents, The Anchoress and Deacon Greg Kandra—are gathering in Colorado this week to confer, converse, and otherwise hobnob with their fellow wizards at the Catholic Media Association gathering. Read more

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2016-05-02T10:51:21-06:00

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Praying for St Lucy’s . . . and Mr B

Last updated on: May 2, 2016 at 10:51 am By Joanne McPortland

What does it mean to provide a Catholic education? What are the challenges that commitment poses when Catholic teaching runs counter to societal norms and civil laws? Some young women in Glendora, CA, are getting a lesson in those challenges this month. And they’re not alone. I’m closely following the local news story about a Catholic school’s firing of a long-time, very popular teacher following the publicity surrounding his recent marriage to his same-sex partner. Media coverage is, predictably, heavily... Read more

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