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Best Confession Ever: 5 Things You Should Do Before Confession (and 5 While You’re In There)

Published March 17, 2015 • Written by Lindsay Wilcox Filed Under: Faith

I go to Confession. I am not always “in great need of Confession,” as a priest once phrased it, but I have found it to be good for me. I go once a month whether I really think I need to or not, and there is always a particular routine I follow. I like routines…. [Read More]

Written by Lindsay Wilcox • Published March 17, 2015

Tips For High School Seniors, Heck, High School-ers in General

Published September 30, 2013 • Written by Joshua Villarreal Filed Under: Youth

It’s like they always say, retrospective is always twenty-twenty. The ever-celebrated high school senior year is an incredibly emotion filled time period. The stress of college applications, trying to figure out what career you want to do, and how you interact with friends and relationships in this last year of being home can weigh on… [Read More]

Written by Joshua Villarreal • Published September 30, 2013

So You Think Your Kid Needs a Cell Phone

Published August 27, 2013 • Written by Kathryn Whitaker Filed Under: Blog

Oh, how I wish there was an entry in the Catechism for questions such as these. We have five children, the oldest is twelve and in seventh grade. And, if my gray hairs are any indication, he has asked us for a cell phone no less than one billion times. The answer is still no…. [Read More]

Written by Kathryn Whitaker • Published August 27, 2013

Catholic on Instagram

Published July 31, 2013 • Written by Cristóbal Almanza Filed Under: Social Media and Tech

About 521 images are uploaded to Instagram every second from all over the world. That equals about 45 million photos a day. That’s a superabundance of images. Many of us not only have Instagram on our phones, we also have additional companion apps to help us take image customization to another level. I’ve been fascinated… [Read More]

Written by Cristóbal Almanza • Published July 31, 2013

5 Thoughts for Newlyweds

Published June 5, 2013 • Written by Lauren Gulde Filed Under: Blog, Faith, Family, Marriage and Love, Young Adult, Youth

You can always tell when there’s been a wedding. At my parish, that’s when we get to look at pretty flowers. Because, at a university parish, we don’t spend the big bucks on flowers. We’re frugal, yo. So, we love it when wedding season comes around. There’s fragrant proof of white gowns, flower girls and… [Read More]

Written by Lauren Gulde • Published June 5, 2013

To The College Freshman Class of 2016

Published May 21, 2012 • Written by Elizabeth Filed Under: Blog

We get a lot of good Graduation advice. Steve Jobs told us in his graduation speech at Stanford that we shouldn’t waste our lives living someone else’s dream. Winston Churchill explained that we should never, never, never give in except to the convictions of honor and good sense in 1941. Ellen DeGeneres, at Tulane University… [Read More]

Written by Elizabeth • Published May 21, 2012

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