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2020-02-28T12:04:34-05:00

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Our Lenten Wilderness: Unknown Pleasures and Revelations

Last updated on: February 28, 2020 at 12:04 pm By Guest Contributor

Lent is a season, yes, a time. But it is also a place. Lent is Wilderness, a ruin, a wasteland. During these weeks, we learn of Jesus in the Wilderness. For 40 days, he’s stuck with himself and his thoughts and prayers amid the barren land and empty sky. When The Adversary arrives, at least Jesus has someone to talk to–even as he is tempted to eat, to commit suicide, to bow down and worship. It’s all very unsettling. Lent... Read more

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Burke Gerstenschlager

Revelation of St. John

2020-02-27T09:12:44-05:00

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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Catholicism: A Listicle with Apologies to Wallace Stevens

Last updated on: February 27, 2020 at 9:12 am By Maren Grossman

1. Inside you there are two wolves. One wolf is Catholicism; the other wolf is dead. 2. You say that like it’s a bad thing. 3. The best thing about Catholicism is its people: Dorothy Day. Mother Theresa. 4. The worst thing about Catholicism is its people: Theodore McCarrick. Jean Vanier. 5. Poet Ross Gay (not a Catholic) suggests that sadness is a wilderness. 6. We are dead wolves in a wilderness of sadness.... Read more

2020-02-26T19:08:48-05:00

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Ash Wednesday with St. Anne

Last updated on: February 26, 2020 at 7:08 pm By Jessica Mesman Griffith

St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, grandmother of Jesus, is the patroness of mothers. And junk collectors, according to a piece of street art I bought in the French Quarter years ago. The artist had painted her creepy greenish visage, which looks more like the ghost of Jacob Marley than the traditional saint of Catholic apocrypha and statuary, on a board salvaged from a home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. That last part may or may not be true, which... Read more

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women in the Catholic Church

2020-02-09T13:36:18-05:00

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Dark Devotional: Four Horsemen

Last updated on: February 9, 2020 at 1:36 pm By guest writer

By guest writer Milo Meldrum 1. Conquest I want to control everything: the way I am hurt and the way I am healed, to make a conquest of my own body by brute forcing nature with less grace than an animal. I am three years old, slipping in the bath and splitting my chin where the bone is closest to skin. The memory that sticks is having my chin sewn up, a doll who had misbehaved and split a... Read more

2020-01-05T17:26:52-05:00

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Rereading “I Walk with Jesus” in January 2020

Last updated on: January 5, 2020 at 5:26 pm By Maren Grossman

I remember a sunshiny morning in 1987. I remember sitting in Sunbeam on the floor of my parents’ bedroom, next to their enormous bookcase. Books by Edith Stein and Catherine of Sienna and Theresa of Avila were on my left. I had pulled out the small stack of children’s books from the bottom shelf. I was leafing through a picture book I had received for my first communion, and dismissed as “boring” because its pictures were mostly black and white. I have... Read more

2019-12-24T11:32:52-05:00

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For the Exiles on Christmas Eve

Last updated on: December 24, 2019 at 11:32 am By Maren Grossman

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2019-10-31T11:58:32-05:00

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Untangling the Bones

Last updated on: October 31, 2019 at 11:58 am By Guest Contributor

In the town where I grew up, the first day of doe hunting season was a school holiday. My grandfather wasn’t a hunter, but sure enough, every winter as the deer were shot, slaughtered, and processed, packages of venison would arrive from friends with too much meat for their freezers. The first time I ate deer, I loved it without knowing what it was. Of course, I didn’t know the loveable creature that we left stale bread in the... Read more

2019-10-22T15:17:58-05:00

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Iconoclasm and Misogyny at the Amazonian Synod

Last updated on: October 22, 2019 at 3:17 pm By Maren Grossman

Yesterday, as the Amazonian Synod in Rome comes to an end, it was reported that a statue that symbolized the Synod (Our Lady of the Amazon) was stolen and thrown into the Tiber River. Some celebrated (which was gross). Some were dismayed and cried “racism” and “iconoclasm” (which was correct). Henry Karlson had a particularly nice discussion of iconoclasm over at his blog this morning. The Amazonian Synod was controversial before it even began. It was known that the... Read more

2019-10-05T13:50:44-05:00

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What I Learned from Dating a Catholic Priest: Part 1

Last updated on: October 5, 2019 at 1:50 pm By Guest Contributor

Cool evening air whispered through the windows of my studio apartment where I lay one late Spring evening, hinting to me that life was still being lived outside. My arms and legs were cement. I hadn’t moved on the bed since beginning to play Sharon Van Etten’s album “Because I was in Love,” thirty minutes before. My phone buzzed beside me. My friend was calling to check in. “How’re ya doin’?” she said. “My body just feels... Read more

2019-10-24T17:49:39-05:00

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What I Learned from Dating a Catholic Priest: Part 3

Last updated on: October 24, 2019 at 5:49 pm By Guest Contributor

I began my summer. I started running in the mornings with a good friend. I sprinted out the pain. I tried out different meet-up groups, I needed new friends. I would not let the betrayal destroy me. Then one sunny day I went to a picnic on the lake near my apartment. Sitting in a group of people I’d never met before, I mentioned a city abroad where I had lived. The ears of a tall handsome man... Read more

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