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Om-schooled: How Yoga can influence your Catholic prayer

Monday, May 21, 2012
By Online Editor
Om-schooled: How Yoga can influence your Catholic prayer
Catholics can take a lesson from the Hindu tradition of yoga when it comes to praying with body, mind, and spirit.
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Global youth group

Thursday, April 28, 2011
By Online Editor
Global youth group
A new generation of Catholics will seek out their place in the church in Madrid at World Youth Day 2011.
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Only you? Shattering the myth of a soul mate

Monday, February 13, 2012
By U.S. Catholic
Only you? Shattering the myth of a soul mate
Recently my friend Angela called me in tears. Angela, 31, and her husband have been married for three years, and they are very well-suited: They can spend hours talking and laughing, are attracted to each other, get along with each other's friends and families, and agree on faith, politics, and financial matters. But recently, she told me, the "glow" had worn off.
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A year in the Promised Land

Monday, April 9, 2012
By Online Editor
A year in the Promised Land
 A student abroad observes how past and present shape the future of the Holy Land.October 4, 2010In less than a week, I leave for a year-long Fulbright fellowship in Jerusalem. In preparation I have spent a lot of time reading Israeli newspapers to brush up on current affairs in the country.
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Little women: How consumer culture is forcing girls to grow up too fast

Monday, April 2, 2012
By Online Editor
Little women: How consumer culture is forcing girls to grow up too fast
Mattel and Abercrombie sell sexiness even to 6-year-olds. Enter those who are fighting back to let girls be girls.At a recent wedding Becky Groth was amazed to see the revealing dress on the beautiful 17-year-old daughter of a close friend. The dress was so skimpy and inappropriate, Groth says, that the girl drew a lot of unwanted attention from young men.
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What's keeping young adults out of church?

Monday, March 26, 2012
By Online Editor
What's keeping young adults out of church?
Maybe it’s time to let generations X and Y have their say.It was one of those conversations: Late in a family holiday visit, the topic of religion comes up. This time it was my 20-something brother, talking about why his friends reject organized religion.
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New man on campus: A new approach to Catholic campus ministry

Monday, January 23, 2012
By Online Editor
New man on campus: A new approach to Catholic campus ministry
A new approach to student ministry is changing the Catholic presence on the quad.A young man and woman stop short of the Arizona State University Memorial Union. It’s lunchtime. James Timberlake asks Jessica Peterson to lead the two of them in prayer.
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Newman Centers: A brief history

Monday, January 16, 2012
By Online Editor
Newman Centers: A brief history
The mission of Catholic Newman Centers has changed over more than 100 years.In the 1800s, Blessed John Henry Newman wrote that “religious truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge.” Catholics who attended non-Catholic universities are likely to have encountered one of the hundreds of centers inspired by the 19th-century Catholic intellectual.The “Newman Movement” in the Uni
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Empowered by the Spirit: The U.S. bishops on campus ministry

Monday, January 16, 2012
By Online Editor
Empowered by the Spirit: The U.S. bishops on campus ministry
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Getting through? How Catholic colleges are responding to sexual assault

Monday, December 12, 2011
By Online Editor
Getting through? How Catholic colleges are responding to sexual assault
Catholic colleges are learning the right way to answer when a victim of sexual assault calls for help. Student Elizabeth “Lizzy” Seeberg committed suicide on September 10, 2010, 10 days after she’d claimed a University of Notre Dame football player fondled her against her will.
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