Trying to Be Perfect

  Like most European Catholics I was born and brought up in the aftermath of the Renaissance influenced by a spirituality that owed as much

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The Beauty of Imperfection

Beauty? Who defines it? Who should define it? How should it be defined? Every culture has its own interpretation and there is some universal commonality,

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Loneliness, repentance

Do You Have a Death Wish?

Who would have a death wish? Stuntmen, firefighters, and perhaps some customer service representatives (like the guy I was on the phone with for an

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People of Progress

“Holiness does not consist in not making mistakes or never sinning. Holiness grows with capacity for conversion, repentance, willingness to begin again”  – Pope Benedict

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Being the “Good Girl”

Good, perfect, holy, sweet, innocent, beautiful, kind, pure – there are so many words that described who I wanted to be ever since childhood. These

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