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As Pope Francis’ historic six-day apostolic visit nears, consider what you could say as he departs for the Vatican Sept. 27: “The papal visit raised my level of confidence as a Catholic. Doors …
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Soren Johnson
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9/2/15
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About the time the Planned Parenthood videos first started breaking, I was immersed in reading about one of my heroes, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Historian Michael Nicholson’s The Gulag Archipelago: A …
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Soren Johnson
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8/12/15
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303 views
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The inexorable passage of time that any father faces is, well, humbling. Our children race through the days and years, and we wonder what sticks. But as anyone knows, we carry memories of our dads …
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SOREN JOHNSON
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6/17/15
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728 views
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Men repair stuff. I know — I’m resorting to stereotypes. But I don’t know any guys who find happiness by waking up day after day to a bunch of broken things.
And yet, according to a friend …
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SOREN JOHNSON
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6/3/15
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717 views
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I was 4 years old, and not Catholic, when Karol Wojtyla was elected the 264th bishop of Rome. By the time I was 27 — and as he entered his final four years — the Lord would call me to the church. …
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Soren Johnson
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5/19/15
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688 views
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Call it my Lego epiphany. For many months my 10-year-old son has been building Lego ships. Then one day he started to hit me with questions about hulls, torpedoes and naval maneuvers like “crossing …
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Soren Johnson
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5/6/15
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770 views
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Biographies — much like hunting or birdwatching — track elusive prey. So my hopes were set relatively low for The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope by Austen Ivereigh, …
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Soren Johnson
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4/22/15
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748 views
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We should say no to soundbites, but hypocrite that I am, I propose here a four-word distillation of Catholic faith: “Make the first move.”
The cliche came to mind during a recent evening …
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Soren Johnson
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4/8/15
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734 views
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“The conference ‘high’ wears off fast,” one dad told me the week after the record-breaking 1,100-man-strong diocesan men’s conference earlier this month, “and …
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Soren Johnson
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3/25/15
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1718 views
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Pope Francis’ “Joy of the Gospel” is a 50,000-word treasure trove and arguably his blueprint for the church today, but two words have been ringing in my head ever since I first laid eyes on …
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Soren Johnson
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3/10/15
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878 views
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