Choice and the Alienated Ego
Toronto’s Globe & Mail (July 19, 2008) featured a sociological look into women who had abortions. Titled “The Hidden Abortion Issue,” it explored why, though abortion has been unrestricted in...
View ArticleDaily Quote from St. Augustine
The times are bad! The times are troublesome!” This is what humans say. But we are our times. Let us live well and our times will be good. Such as we are, such are our times. - St. Augustine Print...
View ArticleMother as a Human Being
We mothers can be so efficient. We can do laundry, clean a dirty kitchen, and calm sibling spats in between spooning Gerber’s best into our babies’ mouths. Once, just for fun, I wrote down everything I...
View ArticleThe Rescuing Hug
Kyrie and Brielle Jackson were born on October 17, 1995, a full 12 weeks ahead of their due date. The standard practice, that time, at The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, where...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Henri de Lubac, SJ
“So, in the matter of God, whatever certain people may be tempted to think, it is never the proof which is lacking. What is lacking is taste for God. The most distressing diagnosis that can be made of...
View ArticleBecoming More Human This Lent
“You weren’t created for this world- so for the next forty days, live like it.” This Sunday, the first reading might surprise us. It’s Lent, so we might expect to hear about fasting or penance. Perhaps...
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