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Elise Italiano Ureneck

Reconciling the world with life

October 23, 2022
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Respect Life

With the question of abortion now open for debate in America, women have a critical role in persuading men and women against taking the lives of their children.

How we live our lives on and offline

June 23, 2022
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary

Even though ours is a world focused on “living our truths” and “living our authentic selves,” it has become a world of performance.

Learning to love the cry room

April 14, 2022
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Feature, Guest Commentary

I now consider the cry room a sanctuary within a sanctuary, a gift of which only compassionate and loving parent-architects could have conceived.

How Tom Brady can inspire our Lenten discipline

February 10, 2022
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent, Sports

What we choose to do for our Lenten disciplines should help us make incremental progress toward holiness.

The grace to bloom where we’re planted

April 21, 2021
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

His life was enriched by a community that chose him, not the other way around. It took an investment of time — well more than a decade — to reap the benefits.

Lent’s promise in bleak times

February 18, 2021
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Lent

Perhaps it’s a blessing, then, that the church gives us Lent in midwinter. It’s a season of soul-searching; the gray skies give us no other choice but to turn inward and examine the dark spaces we’d rather not explore.

History’s greatest inaugural speeches

January 14, 2021
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

Inaugurations speak to our innate need to start over from time to time, to express new hopes and fears, to realign our priorities and make sure the path we’re walking on is the right one.

Woe to those who gossip

September 23, 2020
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

Gossip may be shared between two people, let’s say by a tweet and reply or a Facebook post on another person’s wall, but it is shared with the knowledge that both parties’ followers will see it. What is most pernicious is that it’s often shared not in spite of that knowledge but because of it.

The legacy of St. John Paul II’s encyclical ‘Evangelium Vitae’ at 25

April 17, 2020
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Respect Life

A culture of life is always within reach and is built one moment and decision at a time.

Our Christian calling and social distancing

March 17, 2020
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Guest Commentary

The global phenomenon of imposed isolation provides an important moment to call to mind the many people who experience “social distancing” as a daily, lived reality — most often not of their choosing.

Biblical wisdom for expectant, ‘older’ mothers

September 19, 2019
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Filed Under: Bible, Commentary, Guest Commentary

There is a special kind of humiliation (and humor, if you’re a good sport), reserved for pregnant women who skew a little bit above the average age of moms in this country.

Send in the clowns

February 22, 2019
By Elise Italiano Ureneck
Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary

A good comedian helps an audience to recognize common absurdities, inconsistencies and hypocrisies in any given cultural moment. Their real genius is helping audiences to recognize the ones in which they also take part.

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