Valerie Schultz
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Dolly Parton, Jimothy the Raccoon and the Christian call to be ‘not normal’ (opens the original)
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Well, if you want to sing out, sing outAnd if you want to be free, be free’Cause there’s a million things to beYou know that there are…– Cat Stevens The dignity of every human person can be described as infinite.– Pope Leo XIV (“Magnifica Humanitas,” No. 53) One name can suddenly lift the spirits: Jimothy. Jimothy is an unlikely social media star: a raccoon with a rare condition called short spine syndrome. This little ball of a raccoon earned his name from a Seattle resident who first spotted t
Be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord (opens the original)
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The Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the Church I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living. (Ps 27) I can repeat the prayer, but do I believe it? We have many worries these days—starting with whether the robots are going to kill us all by the end of the decade. We have money troubles, war troubles, political troubles, family tr
Who has known the mind of the Lord? (opens the original)
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Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time For “who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to counsel him?”But we have the mind of Christ. (1 Cor 2:16) We humans (and writers) sometimes forget ourselves in the divine scheme, and we have to be reminded of our proper place. “Where were you when I founded the earth?” God asks Job (Jb 38:4). It’s a rhetorical question, and it silences Job. The prophet Isaiah quotes the words
My two Sunday obligations: Mass and a protest (opens the original)
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Did I expect to find myself, in the year of our Lord 2026, standing on the corner of Main and First, along with 20 other people holding signs? As my granddaughter would say, “Yeah…nope.” But the insistent newsletters from the local “Indivisible” political action group got under my skin. Yes, I was faithfully sending emails to my representatives and writing postcards and donating money here and there. But I still felt prodded by the notice about the physical gathering of souls every Sunday at 1 p
We were hoping (opens the original)
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The Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church A Reflection for the Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl,who took it to her mother.His disciples came and took away the corpseand buried him; and they went and told Jesus. The disciples of John the Baptist must have been devastated when they got news of his execution. “They came and took away the corpse and buried him,” Matthew tells
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