It seems like the question of identity has come up a lot lately. I’m not going to be commenting on Bruce/Caitlyn or about people seeing themselves as transabled or transracial. Instead, I want to ask everyone: How do you define yourselves? The center of all of these current news stories is the question of identity and how one defines oneself. What exactly defines being male or female? What defines race? What defines sexuality? Does it really have to do with how... Read more
Swan goals. A photo posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Jun 10, 2015 at 3:25pm PDT I usually don’t care about celebrity news. I avoid anything relating to names such as Kardashian or Jenner or Clooney. But I’m still a fangirl at heart and when something extraordinary happens, I can and will freak out about it. I may not be someone who keeps up with all the A-list celebrities, but Taylor Swift and Christopher Lee are my exceptions to the... Read more
Ana is considered a cradle Catholic, but says she is a revert, because she fell away from the Church for a brief time (still continuing to go to Mass!). Many of Ana’s friends joke that she knows half the priests in her home diocese, the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, because it seems as if she knows every priest she meets! She is a Theology major at Notre Dame College in South Euclid, OH. Commonly seen on her college campus (or... Read more
This is a follow-up to Captain Elizabeth Scalia’s #WhyRemainCatholic challenge. I’m bringing in answers from some of my fellow Catholic women who are young and young at heart. Madeleine McIlheran: Once I finally gained an actual understanding of our faith as opposed to the “meh” approach of many Catholic schools, at the age of 12, I KNEW it to be True, and could never again doubt the Truth taught by the Church. As a matter of fact, the assurance of the Truth... Read more
The way I make friends has changed since my days of wearing a school uniform and playing out in parking lots. I don’t have the safety net of a college campus and I don’t work in an office, so my circle of friends consists of two categories: People I meet through retreats and church-related activities and people I meet through the internet. Internet friendship is a tricky thing. On the one hand, the internet gives off the illusion of... Read more
So I was browsing my social media feed when I saw this on a nondenominational Protestant’s facebook page. Sometimes I just wish Jesus would appear in the flesh so I could see Him and touch Him and look into the face of all certainty, you know what I mean? For the intents of this post, I’m gonna address the following to “Lady” because the page belongs to a woman who works in women’s ministry. Dear Lady: “How many of you say:... Read more
Yesterday, I featured my friend and fellow Patheos Catholic blogger Leah Libresco on my Women of Christ Wednesday segment. One perk about working for this site: Free books. I read through Arriving at Amen in about a week’s worth of time. I cringed at the math metaphors used throughout. Being the Former English Major that I am, I am highly allergic to math. Yes, I did well in my high school Algebra and AP Statistics classes, but I still hate math with every... Read more
Leah Libresco grew up as an atheist in New York. When she went to college, she picked fights with the most interesting wrong people that she met, who happened to be the campus Catholics. After a long series of coffees, late night conversations, and book swaps, she would up changing her mind and leaving her deontological beliefs behind to be recieved into the Catholic Church in 2012. She blogs about religion at Unequally Yoked and her first book, Arriving... Read more
My friend and recently published writer Mariella Hunt has nominated me for the Creative Blogger Award! There are some rules that come with the Creative Blogger Award, rules that need to be passed onto the bloggers I’ll tag at the end of the post. Nominate 10-15 blogs and notify all nominees via their blogs/social accounts Thank and post the link of the blog who nominated you Share 5 facts about yourself to your readers Pass these rules onto the nominees Given... Read more
It always breaks my heart when I meet a fallen-away Catholic. It also breaks my heart knowing that so many young adults are spiritually lost and don’t have any particular religion or spirituality. I’ve said before that I envy those who converted into the faith because they came into the Church with their eyes and heart so open. Cradle Catholics have the highest amount of Catholics who are either name-only or choose to leave the Church altogether. This cradle Catholic,... Read more
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