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Art Is How God Loves Us By Meridith Hite Estevez (Broadleaf Books, 2026) Google’s AI Overview would likely take one look at the floral cover, trendy title, and dustjacket blurbs for Art Is How God Loves Us: The Sacred Beauty of Created Things and characterize Meredith Hite Estevez’s book as another just-trust-Jesus, embrace-your-inner-artist spiritual memoir […]

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Midnight velvet box lined with stars, shimmer of silver comets tracing the ancient wooden door, directing you to enter & look inward at the night—be ruthless, be methodical.  What is your starkest truth, the proof, laid bare—put on the high beams and probe the angles.  I know it hurts because of what they have done; […]

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For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite readers to submit their responses to these opinion essays—whether agreement or disagreement—in the survey that follows. Click below to take this month’s survey. A mortician placed the embalmed and clothed body of David...

I was working quickly, spreading mulch in my garden, when I flipped over a sheet of cardboard and saw a tiny face with round black eyes staring up at me. I’d disturbed a field mouse’s nest. After the frightened mouse scurried into the grass, I saw her babies. Fragile pink jelly beans, dark eyes sealed […]

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“Don’t just do something, sit there!” That’s one of my favorite expressions, and I often say it to urge friends to engage in contemplation even when busy. This advice comes from personal experience; prayer enables me to stay centered through good times and bad. And it takes seriously the warning of Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner: […]

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