I’ve been thinking about gifts, and the meaning of them, with the upcoming March for Life and its 2026 theme: “Life is a gift.”
Opinion
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An aspect of John’s narrative of the Last Supper has always stuck out to me: Christ’s prayer for unity.
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As we struggle with the complexity and noise of today, the church needs monastics more, not less. And the world? Even more so.
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From the beginning of the Church, the Holy Spirit has led the disciples of Christ to walk in boldness and in truth. Yet today, many young Latinos in the United …
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The idea will not leave my head: how do we anoint a whole world so terribly and self-evidently in need of soothing, healing, consolation and unconditional love?
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Only days after announcing a planned-upon, heavily hedged conversion to Christianity, Scott Adams, creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, author, political commentator and professed agnostic died of metastatic prostate cancer …
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Leo’s papacy, of nine months gestation, has revealed itself slowly — full of hope but also hidden, as though the first pope from the United States meant to show himself …
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It would be unthinkable to say that any Catholic in 2025 has had more news coverage, influence or impact than Pope Leo XIV, who was, up until May 8, somewhat …
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Thanksgiving is a time when many gather around tables filled with family and abundance, yet so many immigrant families in our community are facing empty chairs, empty refrigerators, and fears …
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Even if Pope Leo XIV’s Thanksgiving trip to Turkey and Lebanon began with lighthearted moments — receiving pumpkin pies and White Sox trinkets from the Vatican press corps — the …
