May 21, 2020
A Forgiving Thankfulness
Thanksgiving Day dinners can be challenging occasions for growth. Here are four reminders that may be useful during this holiday season, as well as year-round.
Lent: More Than Giving Up Something
As parents, we know that kids always ask, “Why?” about everything.
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Living Simply: Clean out Your Home, Mind, and Soul
There is a spiritual dimension to spring cleaning. It has to do not only with cleaning, but also with having fewer things to clean — simplifying our lives so that we aren’t consumed with our stuff or distracted by clutter.
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Declutter Your Spiritual Life
Marie Kondo has helped people declutter their possessions. How can we apply her tactics to our spiritual lives?
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Franciscan Respite for Refugees
The scene is repeated again and again as immigrants walk off a minibus and into the parish hall of a Franciscan church in McAllen, Texas. The moving gesture from greeters is a response to a modern-day exodus that began in ...
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Sunday Soundbite for May 21, 2020
The Church is called to go to all the nations to make disciples. That’s a big task, but the "good news" today is that we are equipped to carry out that mission.
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Pope: Church’s preferential option for the poor is nonnegotiable