I think we imagine that if we are truly faithful, we will never have doubts about our faith, but that's not the case. Not only is it normal to have doubts, it ...
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For those of you who, like me, may be struggling in our Church these day, I thought I would share my Give Us This Day reflection from two weeks ago.
I ...
I was recently sitting in a log-cabin chapel on a beautiful lake in the lower Adirondack Mountains when the woman next to me offered a prayer intention during ...
I was featured as a Faces of Faith interview by Rob Brill in today's Albany Times Union. I'm honored. Here's the story:
MARY DeTURRIS POUST
Background: Born ...
My Life Lines column running in the current issue of Catholic New York:
Why do you remain a Catholic?” That was the challenge issued to me on Facebook a while ...
“Why do you remain a Catholic?” That was the challenge issued by Elizabeth Scalia (aka The Anchoress) via Facebook this week, calling me (among many other ...
I am typically a "Why me?" sort of person -- when my computer crashes, when a recipe flops, when I come home from the store without the one thing I went there ...
It's that time of year again, the time when we look at ourselves and see all the stuff that needs improving over the next 12 months. We want to lose 10 pounds, ...
For weeks now I have been feeling helpless, hopeless, in a constant state of incredulity tinged with despair. So much so I have been completely unable to write ...
This is one of those songs that stopped me in my tracks. I happened to have on K-LOVE, when I heard these words sung so sweetly:
You call me out upon the ...
I’m just going to come right out and say it because I know some of you are probably feeling the same way and maybe even feeling guilty about it: Why am I still ...
So yesterday's post was pretty heavy, I guess, and I was reflecting on it as I went about my day and thinking about the depths of the darkness. And I realized ...
Some people have a problem with the idea of purgatory, which is something I honestly just don't get. Of all our teachings, this is one that is not only ...
I knew from the get-go that St. John the Baptist Church in Madison, Alabama, was an active and vibrant parish. After all, the people there scooped up 550 copies ...
Over the past few weeks, folks here have talked about the role of Eucharist in their lives and in the liturgy, with a lot of people saying as long as there is ...
I was going through some old posts this week as I was preparing for a radio interview, and I found this post from March 29, 2103. I thought it might be good to ...
Yeah, hey, so guess what? I'm not the only one who has issues with bad homilies. Turns out Pope Francis feels the same way. And he gets applause when he talks ...
This time Pope Francis is talking with Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Second interview, just as fascinating, 4,600 words bearing the headline "Pope Francis: ...
When we got into our, um, conversation last week about good vs. bad liturgy, people from both sides of the spectrum chimed in with what they thought would be ...
Grace can be hard to put your finger on, like trying to grab at fog or hold onto a breeze. I remember even back when I was writing The Complete Idiot's Guide to ...