Category: Church

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    Retreating the Retreat

    I’m pretty bummed. One of my 2015 goals was to attend a spiritual retreat. It has been something long in the making: I hadn’t taken dedicated time away for that…

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    Joys and Sorrows of Liturgy

    This week, Austin celebrated the ordination of our first auxiliary bishop, Bishop Danny Garcia while the Notre Dame and Holy Cross communities celebrated the funeral of Fr. Ted Hesburgh, CSC,…

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    Father Hesburgh

    Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., was president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987. He increased the stature and size of the university, and greatly influenced the areas…

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    Awaiting Her Decision

    The Catholic Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born to a normal woman, Mary, who was a virgin, using the traditional definition of the term. God, being born into the…

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    Oh, You’re That Kind of Catholic?

    [Editor’s Note: I wrote this almost a year ago, but it sat as a draft forever. In trying to clean up other things, I accidentally published it. Whoops. Since it…

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    No, Put the Chicken Broth Back!

    Yes, chicken broth is “using meat”. Come on people!