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One of the first pieces of advice I gave young officers: Find your faith and embrace it; it will serve you in more ways than you know.

What some might call magic or luck – the winning of a raffle, the work of needle and thread, the transformation of an old green coat – has a more apt name. The creativity of love.

It’s promoted as total freedom, but the “self-made human” is a myth both futile and stress-inducing

What do tacos and coffee have to do with St. Francis? During a regional gathering of The Queen of Peace Regional Fraternity of Secular Franciscans, the St. Cloud Fraternity marked its 100th anniversary, hearing from guest speakers including Franciscan Sister Michelle L’Allier and Shawn Colberg, dean of Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary.

We can ignore Bill Cosby’s comedy routines or skip Woody’s latest flick. We can take the picture down from the living room wall. But do we strip the mosaics from a church?

Over 160 women, men, missioners, clergy, religious, Bishop Patrick Neary and our friends from Homa Bay gathered to ‘Walk together in Christ’s love,’ which was the theme of this year’s event.

This week’s Inside the Capitol column focuses on one Families First policy proposal that would make life a bit easier for new parents by reducing the tax burden they encounter when purchasing necessities for their newborn baby: a sales tax exemption on baby products.

Here are a dozen things I wish I had heard and internalized sooner, and some concrete items that established Catholics ought to consider.