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The first time I heard the song “I Don’t Like Mondays” by Irish new wave band The Boomtown Rats, it was during an episode of The West Wing. The song is about a 1979 school shooting in San Diego, California, and it played quietly while the show’s President Bartlet gave a speech after a school […]
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What’s required for a Catholic wedding? In the Catholic church, marriage isn’t just a celebration of a relationship milestone or the recognition of a new legal status for a couple; it is also considered one of the seven sacraments, so it comes with a lot of theological import attached. Because of this, the process of […]
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In May 2025, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV greeted the world with the words of the resurrected Jesus: “Peace be with you all!” Addressing “all people, wherever they may be,” Leo spoke of the peace of the risen Christ as “unarmed and disarming, humble and persevering.” With his first words as pope, Leo made […]
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Readings (Year A): Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16aPsalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-201 Corinthians 10:16-17John 6:51-58 Reflection: Receive the gift, and with it, transform the world A standard commentary on today’s gospel is to point out that the Greek verb for “eat” shifts in verse 54 from the standard phago to the less common trōgō, a word used to […]
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Does grace come violently? That is not my story, except the part where my grandmother is dead and took every story with her. As I write, someone says a squeaky murmur, a ghost, or the radiator, which is knocking, and this is the same story I tell myself every December, the dead speaking to me, […]
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