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Already and Not Yet
On Palm Sunday 2021, I sank into a pew at St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Ft. Worth, Texas, my heart heavy with grief. The day before,...
Lectio Divina and Online Learning
In my education seminars, I often assign Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death and Matthew Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head. These texts persuasively argue that modern technology is...
Civil Religion in America Then and Now
Yesterday, I discussed with my class Robert Bellah’s famous 1967 essay entitled “ Civil Religion in America .” In a time when news commentators and some scholars express concern...
Women’s Dignity in the Workplace
Do women have to act like men when they enter the professions? The person who has most helped me to ponder this question is Edith Stein: an intellectual and a...
World Youth Day 2011: Insights on Young Catholicism
What does it mean for Catholicism when young Catholics gather from around the world to hear Pope Benedict XVI celebrate Mass, as 1.5. million of them did Sunday, August...
