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May 1st, 2002
Winging It: Meditations of a Young Adult (Orbis Books)
A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. -JOSEPH HELLER
I just received an invitation to a wedding in India from ...
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April 28th, 2002
Tangerines and Transformations
Volunteering to teach confirmation classes at my mid-town Los Angeles parish is challenging work. Let's face it, most teens sign up for the two year, twice-a-month program, because it's SUPER important to their parents, while ...
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April 12th, 2002
A College Student's Spiritual Journey from Minnesota to Thailand
Ever since growing up in Frazee, Minnesota, a small town with a population of 1,700 people, and living next to two Lao families, I had a dream of going to the Thailand/Laos. (Similarly, both ...
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April 6th, 2002
Past Pain Becomes Present Strength
He walked into the diner with his blue windbreaker and disheveled gray hair. His clothes were rumpled and his glasses were slightly askew. In short, he was a mess.
He sat in the ...
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March 28th, 2002
Young People and the Catholic Peace Movement Today
As images of war fill a greater share of the nation's TV news, many Catholics are tuning in to organizations like Pax Christi USA to uphold the doctrine of nonviolence. A peace movement ...
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March 14th, 2002
Living With Passion
On Good Friday, we begin our Passion in earnest. We make the Way of the Cross to contemplate not only Jesus's suffering but our own. Like Jesus in the Garden of Olives, we have ...
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January 16th, 2002
An Infinity of Little Hours: The Trial of Faith of Five Young Men in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
What would it be like to see the face of God with your own eyes?
In the year 1084 St. Bruno of Cologne and six companions climbed a mountain in ...
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January 10th, 2002
JC's Girls' unusual evangelization to the sex industry
"We got some other girls together and we went out to our first strip club."
It may sound like the beginnings of a wild bachelorlette party but in fact it ...
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January 8th, 2002
I'm only five "Why's" away from an ontological crisis
What's that?
I'm buckling my son into his car seat the other morning when he points to the tool used to scrape snow off the windshield.
"It's an ice scraper, sweetheart." ...
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January 6th, 2002
Making room in the classroom for a civil rights' icon and the practice of civil disobedience
The death of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks on October 24th coupled with the fiftieth anniversary on December 1, of her refusal to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus ...
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