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The Trump Administration Must Defend Syria’s Christians
Unlike the majority of Christians in the United States, Middle Eastern Christians are not going to live relatively peaceful lives. It’s true that our culture hates us, scorns Christian...
What Middle Eastern Christians Want
The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets by janine di giovanni public affairs, 272 pages, $30 Damascus—or as the locals call...
We Will Not Yield
In 1977 my parents came to the difficult conclusion that there was no future for them and their children in Iraq. Under the guise of vacation we left for...
Fathers, Help Us
Four years ago I pleaded with the princes of the Church, asking them not to change Catholic doctrine on communion for the divorced and remarried without annulment. I did...
I Know How to Be Abased and I Know How to Abound
I was more ashamed of my Goodwill clothes than of not speaking English when I first came to America, because I knew that one day I would speak English...
A Response to Archbishop Victor Fernandez
Argentine Archbishop Victor Fernandez has taken liberties in his role as ghostwriter for Pope Francis. Michael Pakaluk, an ethics professor at the Catholic University of America, examines some of...
A Response to the Bishops of Malta
The Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano has published a document by the bishops of Malta to the priests of their diocese, approving Holy Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics sans annulment....
Why Amoris Laetitia Wouldn’t Have Helped Me
Like waves breaking on rock, polishing and shaping by force, the Catholic faith sands and sculpts my being. The day my soul became Catholic was the day I found...
What a Divorced and Remarried Catholic Wants from the Synod
Regina Einig interviewed Luma Simms, author of My Plea, for the German newspaper Die Tagespost, in which a version of this interview first appeared. As a divorced and remarried Catholic...
Kim Davis: The Guts of a Convert
Kim Davis may not have a legal leg to stand on (see here, and here). But I think some Christians are moving too quickly to critique her situation on...
Renewing My Plea: Humanae Vitae after Obergefell
Some months back, I made a plea—that the Church not yield on withholding the Eucharist from divorced and remarried Catholics. I wrote briefly of my own Catholic conversion, which...
Why I Wear the Mantilla
The mantilla is a lace veil women have worn over their heads while worshipping God since the time of the New Testament Church. One reason I came to the...
My Plea
The day my soul became Catholic was the day I found out that as a divorced and remarried woman I could not receive Communion. Tears of sorrow and joy...
