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The Road To Heaven Is Paved With Maracas

Catherine Connors — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:30:01 +0000

Last weekend, I went to Mass for the first time in well over a decade. To say that it was a strange and disorienting experience would be to understate things dramatically. But it was also a deeply comforting and familiar experience. I know that that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but in my experience very little ever does when it comes to sorting out one's personal relationship to faith.I should maybe back up a bit.I went to Mass because I was Read the full post here »

Dear God (On The Catholic Church And Abuse And Evil And Crises Of Faith)

Catherine Connors — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:34:44 +0000

This weekend, I read an article in New York Times Magazine about the crisis surrounding the Catholic Church in Ireland as new, horrible, stories emerge about sexual abuse of children and efforts by the Church to cover up those stories. It was a teensy bit upsetting. So I started to write a post about it - in the middle of the night, fueled by outrage and tea - and realized, a few paragraphs in, that...

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Buy Yourself Roses For Valentine’s Day

Catherine Connors — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:07:07 +0000

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. --...

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There But For A Rocking Chair: On Love and Fear and Keeping Our Children Safe

Catherine Connors — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:46:18 +0000

Before Emilia was born, I fussed endlessly about babyproofing. Never mind that it would be months before she would even enter the world, let alone move around it and find its electrical outlets: I was convinced that when it came to babies, there was no such thing as too many precautions taken too soon. So we did everything: plugged electrical outlets, purchased baby gates, secured the cords of window blinds, babyproofed cupboard doors, checked the house for mold and lead paint and random specks...

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Blog The Change You Wish To See In The World

Catherine Connors — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:33:05 +0000

I wrote this post a few months back, when I was in Africa. It's worth reposting today, on World Aids Day, because I think that the reminder is an important one: that those of who have a voice - whether those voices are carried virtually, or otherwise - have a responsibility to use our voices for those who don't. And the mothers and the children and the families that I met in Africa don't have voices. I lend them mine.

I'm writing this post from a hotel room in Maseru, Lesotho....

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They Say It’s Her Birthday

Catherine Connors — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:35:09 +0000

It's Emilia's birthday this weekend. Her dad made homemade birthday party invitations for her, and they kind of break my heart: I'd have invited you, but, you know, Emilia will only share so much cake. Also, I need to not have too many witnesses when I...

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Didn’t Have To Try To Make Her Go To Rehab: On Demi Lovato As Role Model

Catherine Connors — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:15:17 +0000

So. Demi Lovato has, apparently, checked herself into rehab to address "emotional and physical issues." The media, of course, is all over this: another young female celebrity, crushed under the weight of the pressure of being a young female celebrity. Oh, the tragedy! Oh, the inevitability! Oh, the legacy of Lohan! OH THE DISNEY...

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California Dreamin’

Catherine Connors — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:06:13 +0000

I was recently asked in an interview about my favorite family vacation. My impulse was to answer, what family vacation? but then I remembered that late this summer the husband and I took the kids to Blue Mountain for four days. Which, yes, I suppose was a vacation, but as Blue Mountain is only a two hour drive from our home it didn't really feel vacation-y, you know?

Anyway. I do have a dream family vacation.

It's nothing fancy. Sure, I'd love...

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Thank You, Dr Edwards. For The Babies.

Catherine Connors — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:46:02 +0000

The other week, at a maternal health clinic in Barea, a province of Lesotho, I listened as someone asked an HIV-positive mother why she'd wanted to have a baby, even though she knew that she was HIV-positive.Because a baby is hope, she said. A baby is life. I want life.I fought tears. I don't know what it feels like to be HIV-positive, but I understood what she meant. There are all sorts of reasons for wanting children - selfish...

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