Don’t let the Trump administration be the only public face of Christianity, while you retract your faith into privacy, hoping to avoid being associated with MAGA.
Simcha Fisher
Simcha Fisher is a speaker, freelance writer, regular contributor to The Catholic Weekly and author of The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and 10 children.
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A Catholic mom’s guide for having a less-materialistic Christmas
All the people I know who are worried about materialism swallowing up Christmas really just mean: “Presents are a big part of Christmas at our house, and that makes me feel weird.” Don’t feel weird.
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Lessons from Catholics who have faced great suffering—but remained pilgrims of hope
Here are three stories of Catholics who did find sustenance from God in times that felt hopeless.
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JD Vance’s immigration comments are an insult to our Catholic faith
This administration wants to set itself up as somehow Christian. Let them, then, do the bare minimum: Welcome the stranger.
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I can’t give up my phone. But I can work on doing one thing at a time.
My phone is like a needy infant that requires constant heightened attention, even when it is asleep; but unlike an infant, it never stops being hungry, and unlike an infant, it offers so very little compared to what it snatches away.
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Praying for strangers—even online—is a transformative spiritual practice
We need to pray for the person whose real identity and full story we do not know. Because that is everyone.
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All of us have wealth. We just need to notice it.
There are so many things you can enjoy when you are poor—and some, it seems, that are easier to enjoy when you’re poor because you cannot lean on the crutches and the shortcuts that litter the path of the rich.
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You can’t be friends with God without serving others
A surprising lesson about serving God and others from the popular Instagram page Humans of New York
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There was more than one Epiphany—and in dark times, that’s a relief.
Epiphany has come and gone. But this year, it struck me for the first time that the feast we celebrate is actually composed of several epiphanies—and that comes as something of a relief.
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What researching my ancestry taught me about being an adopted child of God
We are not only the family of God because of an act of love but, because he was born as one of us, we are now also biologically like God. We are genetically related to him because he became one of us.