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Aziz Ansari’s hookup was a game of Russian roulette

Leah Libresco January 22, 2018

If Aziz Ansari is reading all the thinkpieces about him, he must feel most ill-served by his allies. “Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader” wrote Bari Weiss …

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The couple that writes Star Wars takes together…

Leah Libresco January 8, 2018

My husband and I enjoyed seeing The Last Jedi, and we both wrote up appreciations of the film. At Aleteia, I wrote "Kylo Ren: The Star Wars not-quite-villain whose temptations are …

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Consent isn’t the Opposite of Louis C.K.

Leah Libresco December 5, 2017

Consent, as the primary criterion for sexual ethics, thinks too small. The careful, consent-seeking lover seeks to use his own strength correctly and responsibly. If a lover of this type …

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Wizards and the Wounds of the World at Doxacon

Leah Libresco October 18, 2017

I had the pleasure of being the keynote speaker at Doxacon (a scifi/fantasy + theology conference). I got to speak about the different kinds of magic on display in Diane …

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Losing My Child at Easter

Leah Libresco September 22, 2017

My husband and I lost our first child at 6 weeks at Easter in 2017. I wrote this essay to thank the women who cared for me in extraordinary ways …

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Farewell to the small graces of Great Comet

Leah Libresco September 1, 2017

"Natasha and Pierre’s marriage is hundreds of pages away (and Andrey will reconcile with Natasha and die before that comes to pass). The change in Natasha is simply this, as …

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Don’t Dox the Alt-Right

Leah Libresco August 16, 2017

"For many of the rally attendees, Charlottesville may be the first time they gathered with the people they’d spoken to online, their first chance to see the movement they’d joined …

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Evangelization At America’s Largest Parish

Leah Libresco April 5, 2017

"St. Matthew uses its ministries and activities to help parishioners find a smaller community within such a large church. Every one of St. Matthew’s groups is expected to hit three …

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‘You Are What You Love:’ Accentuate the Ordinary

Leah Libresco September 22, 2016

"In Smith’s diagnosis, one of the ways we neglect God is by refusing his humblest gifts. We might meditate on the readings at church, do a little devotional reading at …

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Aziz Ansari’s hookup was a game of Russian roulette

Leah Libresco January 22, 2018

If Aziz Ansari is reading all the thinkpieces about him, he must feel most ill-served by his allies. “Aziz Ansari Is Guilty. Of Not Being a Mind Reader” wrote Bari Weiss for the New York Times, exonerating Ansari in a singularly insulting way. It’s unreasonable, Weiss and others write, to expect Ansari and other men to… Read More

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Asking Catholic Women About Vocations, Prayer, Confession, and NFP

Leah Libresco January 17, 2018

I partnered with America to do a series of sidebars, looking through the data in the survey of 1500 Catholic women in America that the magazine produced in partnership with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. Here are links to my four short pieces:   The Prayer Lives of Catholic Women We asked women about… Read More

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The couple that writes Star Wars takes together…

Leah Libresco January 8, 2018

My husband and I enjoyed seeing The Last Jedi, and we both wrote up appreciations of the film. At Aleteia, I wrote "Kylo Ren: The Star Wars not-quite-villain whose temptations are familiar" The combination of great power and great irresponsibility would be enough to make for a challenging antagonist, but Kylo Ren is more than just… Read More

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Mary McCarthy, Masks, and Identity

Leah Libresco January 4, 2018

I read Mary McCarthy's The Company She Keeps, after reading B.D. McClay's Commonweal essay in appreciation of her work. This novel of linked short stories what what Barbara recommended I begin with. (I had forgotten I'd read McCarthy's The Stones of Florence). Here's one passage I particularly enjoyed: Perhaps at last she had found him, the one she kept… Read More

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Books I Plan to Read in 2018

Leah Libresco January 2, 2018

This year, I read all but one of the books on my Books to Read in 2017 list. Spiritual Letters by Dom John Chapman is in progress (so it doesn't have its checkmark yet), but I didn't read The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P. for the second year in a row, so it's coming… Read More

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Origen on “Lead Us Not Into Temptation”

Leah Libresco December 12, 2017

The internet (and the Pope) are discussing the Lord's Prayer plea that God "not lead us into temptation" which brings up the obvious question: why would God lead us into temptation—is it a trap? It's not a new question, and, when our monthly spiritual reading bookclub picked up Tertullian, Cyprian, And Origen On The Lord's Prayer, Origen… Read More

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My Favorite Books of 2017

Leah Libresco December 6, 2017

Nonfiction about prisoners and dead bodies, just one work of fiction (alas!) about tiny dragons, lunar tipplers, and attack oragami. These were my favorite books I read for the first time this year, or, technicallyDec 2016-Nov 2017. I like to put the list together a little early each year, in the hopes of getting some… Read More

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