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When Women Pray: Satisfying Love’s Longing
In Cardinal Sarah’s great book, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, he quotes St. John Vianney on prayer, “See my children, A Christian’s treasure is not on earth. It is in heaven....
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The Sigh of the Heart
I was brought up in New York City by atheist parents who met in the Communist Party, became disaffected, and then became informers for Senator Joseph McCarthy. God was no more real to us than elves...
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Easing the Loneliness of Stay-at-Home Moms
In our desire to convince people of the rightness of our position in certain matters, we can unwittingly lead people to believe that the spiritual life is meant to be easy. Far too often, we build...
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Prayer with Sisters in Christ
Because I grew up as the only girl in a family of boys, my notion of what it meant to have a sister was, shall we say, limited. To be honest, many of my experiences of sisters involved watching them...
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The Last Jedi and St. John Paul II’s Theology of Women
Everyone who didn’t get to see The Last Jedi in theaters let out a collective squeal of excitement this month, as it was finally released on Netflix streaming. It was met with mixed reviews, and I...
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Exposing the Anti-Mary: An Interview with Carrie Gress
In his first epistle, the Apostle John wrote, “as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come” (1 Jn. 2:19). St. Paul wrote of a final antichrist, “the man of...
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Motherhood Proclaims the Resurrection
In the the Gospel of John, Mary Magdalene is the first to witness the risen Jesus. She comes very early to Jesus’ tomb and cries. Let us think for a moment about Mary’s tears. This woman is very...
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The Value and Richness of Small Groups
Community is essential to our happiness and flourishing and ultimately our holiness. We at Endow believe this wholeheartedly and our core mission is to promote community development through small...
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How Women Can Help Renew the Church in an Age of Scandal
We live in an age of the battle of the sexes. Women are expected to be like men and men are expected to be like women. This is the form of equality we are spoon-fed from infancy by our culture. Either...
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How I Talk With My Daughter About the Role of Women in the Church
A few months ago, my daughter decided that her vocation was to be a “girl bishop.” To two parents who work for the Church, this was amusing (but not concerning, given our mutual love for catechesis...
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Is the Church Asking the Right Questions About Women?
The recent Pan-Amazon synod sparked interest about the role of women in the Church. It is a familiar topic, especially since the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women. This was not the first such...
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Saintly Lessons from Working in a Cemetery
While study is important for growth in one’s faith life, I know full well living it out is what matters. This is a hard lesson for me to remember, as evidenced by the pile of academic journal articles...
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As the Theotokos, Mary Reveals the Glory of Womanhood
A girl is born; her parents name her Mary. She grows and is betrothed to Joseph, a carpenter. Before they are married, an angel of God announces to Mary that she has been chosen to be the mother of...
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Meet the Old Testament Women Who Reveal the Truth of Womanhood
“The mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way,” (Dei Verbum, 15). Tied up in this mystery is the mystery of the feminine genius, which John Paul II lauded in myriad ways and on multiple...
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Women Deserve Better Than the False Promises of Contraceptive Culture
One of the Great Injustices Against Women One day history will show that one of the great injustices against women in our time is birth control. There are a plethora of reasons why this is the case....
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