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Advice for Teachers

dotMagis Editor

While we know that not all readers of this blog are teachers, we do recognize the celebration of Catholic Schools Week. This teacher shares...

Mom’s Wisdom

Becky Eldredge

My mom always said, “Treat others the way you want to be treated.” This is a mantra of my youth that tumbles as easily...

Waltzing with God

Tim Muldoon

Leah Libresco, a former atheist and a fellow writer at Patheos, describes in America Magazine how she came to appreciate praying the rosary: Since I’m...

On Beauty

dotMagis Editor

Two old friends were walking down the road one evening when they began to argue. As they went along, they shouted at one another...

Imaginative Prayer: Breakfast on the Beach

Vinita Hampton Wright

This imaginative prayer exercise is based on John 21:1–14, the story of the risen Christ’s appearance to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. You...

How Coffee Can Wake Up the Spiritual

dotMagis Editor

At God in All Things, Jacqueline Shrader writes about the Theology of Coffee. Ignatian spirituality suggests invoking our senses and imagination to encounter God and...

Embracing My Image of Jesus

Cara Callbeck

Years ago on retreat, the director asked me what Jesus looked like to me. I thought about it a moment and then described the...

Wild Joy

Michelle Francl-Donnay

In his Christmas message to the Curia, Pope Francis worried about those who suffer from “la malattia della faccia funerea”—the malady of the funeral...