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How to Spot a Catholic Writer

We weren’t quite strangers in a strange land, but we were united by a faith that was somehow both strong and casual.

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When God Was a Woman

How many of you can say you have touched the shoes of God who walked the earth?

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The Thing Itself

You know, don’t you, that nature
holds you close and finds no
fault with you?

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From Pneumatic Earth

in their games children invent laws
they keep usefully for joy or break
joyfully for use—

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Benediction

It is difficult being the daughter of a very beautiful mother. Even a mother who drank frequently, with enthusiasm, and beginning at two in the afternoon on bad days.

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Before I Knew Sin

I learned to ski on the filthy Mississippi

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From At the Grave of Teilhard de Chardin

What comes at the very end, he said, is the adorable.

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From At the Grave of Teilhard de Chardin

Am I not the emblem of all that was or will be

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Shape-Shifter: The Native American Iconography of Preston Singletary

Again and again, Singletary displaces the viewer by transforming traditional crafts and folkways into new, light-bearing idioms.

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Adam Belt

Holding something from outer space in your hand and praying with it heightens the awareness of God’s creation beyond your immediate surroundings.

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