Prayer is listening to my heart’s longing
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Prayer is listening to my heart’s longing

ByAnnemarie Barrett

“Well, what do you want? What do you desire?”  At the start of my final year as a student at a Jesuit University, I felt like a spiritual mess. I had recently returned from studying abroad for four months in El Salvador through a service-based educational program that effectively upended what I knew about myself…

Confronting contradictions in the Church: Struggles in faith and a question of conscience 

Confronting contradictions in the Church: Struggles in faith and a question of conscience 

ByAnnemarie Barrett

I remember sitting between my fellow Catholic classmates at an evening student mass in my first year at a Jesuit University. The Jesuit offering the mass confidently explained, to us eager young Catholics, that by attending and participating that night, we were showing ourselves to be different from our peers who were forgoing the opportunity…