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Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, a columnist for The Bakersfield Californian and the author of A Hill of Beans: The Grace of Everyday Troubles. She lives on the Oregon Coast.
FaithFaith in Focus
The church needs our young people. But we elders cannot nurture them in the faith if we repel them.
FaithFaith in Focus
It is time for us to understand how this keeps happening and to stop it. We women are being called to shake things up.
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Like the apostles, we have been sent out two by two to proclaim the message of Jesus with our imperfect lives.
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Pretrial freedom should not belong only to those who can purchase it.
FaithFaith in Focus
When we bargain with God, we espouse a God who keeps score, rather than the God who loves us no matter what.
FaithLast Take
There have been times when I have only held onto my Catholic faith by the smallest of fingernails. I am a doubter. I am a protester.
FaithLast Take
Every year, my sister and I take the anniversary of each of our parents’ deaths off and spend it together. We go to the cemetery and to Mass, and gather the memories and the mourning into our arms and hearts for one more year.
FaithLast Take
Many of us have learned the hard way that “L.G.B.T.” is a trigger for some Catholics to become very un-Christian.
FaithLast Take
May we repent as we worship at the altar of the gun, even to the point of sacrificing our own children.
FaithLast Take
Your DNA is like a blueprint of your soul, which is another sacred thing that is not like anyone else’s in the world.