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VIEWPOINT: Empower LGBTQ+ Identity in Religious Understanding

VIEWPOINT: Empower LGBTQ+ Identity in Religious Understanding

By Flanny Flanigan April 21, 2023

I firmly and deeply believe that God is trans. Or queer, or gender-nonconforming in some manner or another. I know and trust this understanding for a variety of reasons, mainly because the divine —...

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Reject Unhealthy Standards of Perfection

BAZAIL-EIMIL: Reject Unhealthy Standards of Perfection

By Eric Bazail-Eimil February 25, 2021

In his poem “Pied Beauty,” the English poet and Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., thanks God for what Hopkins describes as “dappled things:” brinded cows, finches’ wings and trout with red...

THREATT: Finding God and Identity Through Disappointment

THREATT: Finding God and Identity Through Disappointment

By Kathryn Threatt April 25, 2018

Kathryn Threatt's Georgetown experience got off to a rocky start. Since she got to campus, however, her disappointments have deepened her faith in God and awareness of her own identity. To read about Kathryn's...

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ROSENBERGER: How Our Shortcomings Give Us Strength

By Tim Rosenberger November 11, 2014

Less than a week after watching my Republicans stomp through an incredibly successful midterm election, it seems odd that I would be writing anything other than a gleeful victory lap. While I am salivating...

ROSENBERGER: A Surprising Journey Via Active Meditation

ROSENBERGER: A Surprising Journey Via Active Meditation

By Tim Rosenberger September 23, 2014

Meditation has always struck me as an inefficient use of valuable time. My distinctly Protestant understanding of prayer allowed me to come before God, unencumbered by intercessors or ritualized language,...

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The Mass That Showed Me the Way

By Patrick Boyden May 16, 2014

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” The first time I entered Lauinger Library, I had no idea that this Latin phrase, Cognoscetis veritatem et veritas liberavit, loomed...

ROSENBERGER: Unexpected Solace in a Fractured Faith

By Tim Rosenberger March 25, 2014

This year, I am giving up my faith for Lent. When I arrived home for spring break, I received the news that the longest, mutually beneficial relationship in my life had come to an end. Every few months...

A New Look at Gatsbys Young and Beautiful

A New Look at Gatsby’s “Young and Beautiful”

By Ryan Bacic and Ryan Bacic May 7, 2013

So I got to see a pre-screening of Baz Luhrman's eagerly awaited The Great Gatsby adaptation last night — one of the perks of dating a Guide writer, wudduppp — and (*spoiler alert*) it was awesome. While...

False Inclusiveness Plagues Debate

By Kaley Beins October 23, 2012

In his address at Germany’s Regensburg University in September 2006, Pope Benedict XVI asserted that faith without reason is fanaticism. Although he was not speaking about homosexuality, I think that...

God’s Plan for Sexuality

By Kieran Raval October 19, 2012

Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen once said, “Millions of people dislike the Church for what they think she teaches. But there aren’t 10 people who dislike the Church for what she really teaches.”...

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