Marissa Papula

Marissa Papula

Marissa Papula is the director of development for Discerning Deacons and the former director of campus ministry at Loyola Marymount University. Her writing has appeared in America, The Christian Century and elsewhere.

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An interior view of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City on October 9, 1962, two days before the opening of the Second Vatican Council (AP)

Stephanie Sy-Quia's debut novel paints forbidden love against Vatican II backdrop

Book review: With its story of a romance between a priest and a theology teacher, Stephanie Sy-Quia's critically acclaimed novel, A Private Man, traces themes of inheritance and longing amid radical change.

The sun sets behind a statue of Mary on Apparition Hill in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in this Feb. 26, 2011, file photo. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Mary of Medjugorje isn't the reason I'm Catholic — but what she represents is

Perhaps Marissa Papula really was marked for ministry as a baby, but to respond to the mark is a decision all her own.

"Mother" by Joaquín Sorolla, 1895 (Artvee)

For Mother's Day, a new book redeems the holy labor of motherhood

In Love Like a Mother, Elizabeth Berget claims that biblical texts, Christian history, art and women's lived experience are saturated with maternal imagery for God. 

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