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Walking at their pace
I balance the laundry basket on my hip while coaxing a sleepy preschooler downstairs. He wants me to carry him.
A moral duty to serve refugees
Imagine that you are languishing in a foreign jail alone. You don't know a soul in this strange country.
Single but not alone
As Mother's Day approaches, fresh in my memory are recent encounters with two single mothers.
'Amid the Fray': Dispatches from the front
"Amid the Fray" is a curious sort of title for a column, don't you think?
The fear gripping all of us today
"It's almost like living under this -- maybe not fear -- but a worry about what's next and what will happen. This feeling of being unwelcome in the country. I hadn't really felt that before."
Despair as weakness rather than sin
ultimate, unforgivable sin.
Grace for the awkward stages in our lives
I've done many awkward things in my life. Coughed during a crucial conversation. Forgotten the name of someone I just met. Driven away from the store, leaving vital groceries behind.
Technology and faith
I once asked some high school students to identify a couple of trees -- a birch and an elm -- based on pictures of their leaves.
At life's end
My father-in-law died this past month. He was a good, hardworking man, an immigrant, self-taught and self-reliant.
First Holy Communions full of faith, family
In celebration of youngsters receiving their First Holy Communion in parishes across the Diocese, The Monitor invited two of its freelance correspondents, EmmaLee Italia and Rose O’Connor, to share their firsthand accounts of their children being welcomed to the Lord’s table. Both families spend a large portion of their lives …
Evicted: The housing crisis in the U.S.
My husband and I are sitting on our front porch on a gentle spring evening, reading.
Coming Full Circle - From storybooks to spirituality
My first love was literature, novels and poetry.
The greatest mission for parents
Earlier this month we watched Pope Francis travel to Fatima for the centenary of Our Lady’s apparitions to the three shepherd children, Lucia dos Santos and Jacinta and Francisco Marto.
Staying prepared for 'grief pockets'
Looking back over the past four years, I can't pinpoint when or where the scale tipped. When my days became more "not-grieving" than grieving.
Through the trials of life, gratitude is a wellspring of hope and healing
This year I spent Mother’s Day away from home, without spending any time with my sons and their families. I had been sick for several weeks and my husband thought a few days away at the shore would give me time to rest.
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