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Once upon a time, not even in this century, in the increasingly more remote Anno Domini 1999, I was a freshman in college. And I read a book in French literature class that I somehow still remember rather well. It was the essay collection Mythologi...

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Systemic racism is woven into the fabric of almost all of society’s institutions, like individual strands of hair woven into a thick braid. The Catholic Church is no exemption. Systemic racism, while related, operates independently from the person-to-person racism that receives the lion’s share of attention in society. In order to contextualize later href="https://undpress...

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The word "and” is the lowliest, clunkiest, and most forgettable word in the English language. It has just about no saving graces: it is at best mechanical, at worst irredeemably embarrassing. Admittedly, this word—its promiscuous use often associated with children—has a number of different ...

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Does being a woman entail a vocation? The title of this essay outlines its argument. First, I consider in general terms what it means to be “called to be woman.” Since the Gospels reveal that the Blessed Virgin Mary received and responded to this very calling in an exemplary way, I then consider Mary’s womanly genius, which, I argue, is intrinsically connected to her identity...

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Over the past year, I have had conversations with presidents and mission officers through the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, with admissions directors in the National Catholic College Admissions Association, with faculty and staff at places like St. John’s University and Fairfield University, and with boards of trustees and program directors at my own and ...

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