Thea-logy: Memories of Thea Bowman

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Being Sister Thea Bowman's friend was a study in living joyfully every day.

Two decades ago a remarkable woman died. The New York Times carried her obituary; the Jackson, Mississippi NBC affiliate televised her funeral; Mike Wallace had featured her on 60 Minutes two years before she died. And she was my friend.

Charlene Smith, F.S.P.A. is author with John Feister of Thea's Song: The life of Thea Bowman (Orbis Books, 2010)

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Be here now: The benefits of living in the present

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There's no time like the present for living in God's presence.
Kathy Daley is a writer living in Jeffersonville, New York. See more posts by Kathy Daley

Not even Alzheimer’s can erase God

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The lines on her face indicate that Sister Miriam is well into her 80s. But she tells a visitor that she is 40.
Peter Feureherd is a writer from Rego Park, New York.  See more posts by Peter Feuerherd

Catholic and feminist: You got a problem with that?

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Catholics ought to be loud and proud in the fight for women’s rights, argues a young feminist.

I still remember the first time I heard a friend utter the words I considered near blasphemy: “I’m not a feminist.” I was shocked. We were bright junior high girls in the age of the Spice Girls’ “girl power,” and I, for one, had been raised a feminist by a 1960s feminist mother.

Megan Sweas is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.

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