Serving God as an Engineer

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We are blessed with an abundance of resources on how to live out our Vocations (married life, religious life, consecrated single life), and there are clear landmarks along the path towards Sainthood though the paths may look very different. I think it is a little more challenging to see the connections between serving God and …

Loving God when You’re Chronically Ill

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I think one of the biggest challenges in maintaining faith in God is the existence of suffering. While the Church has some great things to say about suffering and you may be able to recognize logically that the existence of suffering, for example, a chronic illness, doesn’t mean God isn’t there, it can be hard …

Chicago March for Life 2017

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What would compel someone to take an eight hour round trip on a bus to spend two hours outside in a Chicago winter to walk only a couple of blocks? The answer: to defend life at every stage in a culture that actively dehumanizes several vulnerable populations and denies the right of life to many. …

Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist?

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Can you be both faithful to the Catholic Church and be a feminist?

If you look at the literal meaning of feminism, then the answer is emphatically yes, but when you look at the modern feminist movement, that confident “yes” turns into a blur of uncertainty and conflicting perspectives.