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By Elizabeth Hanna Pham, May 22, 2013
I’d always heard about being comfortable in your own skin, about how every body is beautiful, about how you shouldn’t let the media affect how you feel about yourself. I knew that models were airbrushed and pushed up and manipulated in all sorts of ways and that they didn’t represent “real women.” I’d even been told that I was beautiful. But despite what I was told, I always felt like I knew of a deeper truth - that there was an ideal, far more perfect than I was and that I could never reach that ideal. As it does for many females, that idea stung. And it stung deeply. I’d try to reason it out.  ( ) |
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Come Holy Spirit By Helen Alvaré, May 20, 2013 |
In the spirit of Pentecost, the editors are reprinting the text of a fiery speech given by Dr. Helen Alvaré at the 2013 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Video of the speech as broadcast on EWTN can be seen here, and begins at minute 17:45.
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A Modest Proposal By Dorothy Cummings McLean, April 19, 2013 |
Readers may have become weary of that Catholic blogosphere cliche: the concern over male modesty and the oversexualization of male fashion in the world today. However, I don't think it can be stressed enough how much of a temptation it is for women—how much of a pitfall—to see men in attractive clothes or, indeed, skimpy outfits. Now that spring is upon us, it will not be long before the young men of the world actually take their shirts off and run around soccer fields topless, as if there were no married women over thirty around to look at them. ( ) |
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Let’s Talk About Porn By Caitlin Bootsma, April 13, 2013 |
It's the conversation no dating couple wants to have.No, I'm not talking about the “what’s our relationship status” discussion.I'm talking about pornography. ( ) |
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Roadtripping with Children and Other Modern Plagues By Melissa Langsam Braunstein, April 5, 2013 |
Editor’s Note: Altcatholicah is commited to interfaith dialogue and fostering fruitful conversation about faith and gender. Here, Melissa Langsam Braunstein describes her Jewish perspective on a universal challenge for new moms.
The Israelites spent 40 years wandering in circles in the Sinai. Strong youngsters walked ahead, while the elderly, infirm, children, and their parents followed. After this year’s Passover family road trip, winding through the wilds of New Jersey’s back roads, I understand why. Everything simply takes longer with children, including travel. ( ) |
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Post Tenebrae Spero Lucem By Losana Boyd, March 29, 2013 |
It is the morning of Good Friday and I am walking in the sprawling, forested cemetery that surrounds San Miniato al Monte, the spectacular basilica dating back to 1018, which overlooks the city of Florence, Italy. Surrounds is the right word, because at San Miniato, the dead are everywhere. Tombs, headstones, private chapels, and funeral statuary, begin on the grounds in front of the Church and continue well into the landscape of cypress around the back. Graves are set out as something of an Italian garden, with formal walking paths and careful design. ( ) |
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