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Why We Walk As One in Health Care
For most people, modern Health Care is not defined by peace and accompaniment. Rather, health care has become culturally synonymous with the terms overwhelming and isolating. It is baffling how aspects of our lives as intimate as health care and healing, have become...
The Cross of Infertility and Motherhood
Written by guest contributor and CURO member, Sarah Vacca. Originally published on her blog TheGracefulCatholicWoman.com, reprinted with permission. The purpose of Mother’s Day is to celebrate all mothers: spiritual mothers, physical mothers, religious sisters,...
St. Catherine’s Courageous Embrace of the Radical: A Witness to Women in Health Care
The movie Cabrini by Angel Studios recently captivated the Church’s conversation on modern feminism. Mother Cabrini, a tenacious leader, was able to accomplish much all while living a life of deep faith and communion in the Catholic Church. When Church History is...
Living the Resurrection: Goal Setting In this New Season
At the end of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus gives the Great Commission to the apostles saying, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have...
Checking In: Your New Year’s Resolutions 2024
Now that January is in the rear view, and the shortest month (although it can feel like the longest), February, is upon us, it is important to reevaluate our mindset about goals. Keeping it simple and focusing on the motive for a particular goal is always an...
The Call to Flourish
Through a radical encounter with the living Christ, St. Paul experienced one of the greatest conversions of all time. St. Paul, who was seeking to radically live out his faith as a Jewish man, was scandalized with the claim that a human person was claiming to be...
An Epiphany In Health Care: A Christ Centered Approach
This weekend we celebrate the feast of the Epiphany! The Epiphany celebrates the Manifestation of Jesus as the Son of God. In other words, through the commemoration of the three wise men bringing gifts to an Infant in a humble manger, it highlights the Kingship of...
The Light of Hope This Christmas
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of...
Growing in Gratitude with the Saints this Advent
As the days grow shorter, the weather colder, and the leaves have mostly fallen from the trees, we are presented with an opportunity to reflect. Corresponding with this opportunity, we find ourselves in the season of Advent. We may be tempted to think about the...
The Gluten-Free Diet: Daily Life and the Sacramental Life
The month of November among many other things is Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month. And if you are on a gluten-free diet you are likely very aware that gluten is difficult to avoid in the American Diet! You might have even discovered unexpected spiritual side-effects...
The Little Way of Flourishing
It’s tempting to desire to be something other than who we are. From a young age, we are encouraged to dream, to hope, to plan for the future, and this is a beautiful thing. As Pope Benedict XVI reminded us at World Youth Day in Madrid, “Men and women were created for...
Serving the Gospel of Life; Safeguarding our Little Ones
Growing up, I always found it interesting how many of my family and friends were born in the month of September. Being a September baby myself, I found this very exciting. According to the Social Security Administration, this wasn’t just the observed coincidence of a...
Never Despairing Over Anyone’s Salvation: Looking to St. Monica
We all know the story at the Crucifixion, in which the Good Thief who, after a life of sin, says to Jesus, just prior to his death on the cross, “Lord, remember me when you enter into your kingdom” (Luke 23:42). Our Lord immediately responds: “Truly, I say to you,...
