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The Road To Heaven Is Paved With Maracas
By
Catherine Connors
Last weekend, I went to Mass for the first time in well over a decade. To say that it was a strange and disorienting experience would be to understate things dramatically. But it was also a deeply comforting and familiar experience. I know that that doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense, but in…
Dear God (On The Catholic Church And Abuse And Evil And Crises Of Faith)
By
Catherine Connors
This weekend, I read an article in New York Times Magazine about the crisis surrounding the Catholic Church in Ireland as new, horrible, stories emerge about sexual abuse of children and efforts by the Church to cover up those stories. It was a teensy bit upsetting. So I started to write a post about it…
Buy Yourself Roses For Valentine’s Day
By
Catherine Connors
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. — Buddha
The Kingdom Of Heaven Requires Hearing Aids
By
Catherine Connors
I’m guessing that whoever put this sign together wasn’t thinking literally about ears, but still: at 7:45 in the morning the question ‘who has ears’, posed theologically, just gives one a bit of an existential headache. (Who does have ears? Rabbits have ears, but they don’t, to the best of my knowledge, pray. Corn also…
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