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Joyce Duriga


About the Blogger


Joyce Duriga is editor of the Catholic New World and administrator of Katolik. She has worked in communications and media for Catholic organizations for several years. Most recently, she served as assistant editor at Our Sunday Visitor, a national Catholic newsweekly.

Blog posts by Joyce Duriga

  • Monday, June 21, 2010

    The Spirituality of Rest

    Ever since the first days of elementary school and the promise of summer vacation, many of us have looked to the summer months with great anticipation. When we were younger, it was a time for seemingly endless play. Trips to the pool or lake. Playing outside with friends. Now that we’re older, many of us still look forward to summer as a time for vacations and activity. It’s a time to breathe freer. Rest. Relax. Pray. Slow down. Talk to God a little more.

  • Monday, December 28, 2009

    Harden not your hearts

    Pope Benedict XVI gave a brief address to the city of Rome on Dec. 8 that could have easily been given to people living in the Chicago area, or any city for that matter.

  • Monday, October 05, 2009

    Theology through the headlines

    When people find out that I work for the Catholic Church often they ask me questions about the faith, especially if they are Catholic. Almost as often they have a misunderstanding of what the church teaches on certain things. When I ask where they are getting their information, they frequently reply, “I read it in (insert name of favorite local newspaper or magazine here),” or “I heard it on (insert name of popular cable news channel or local news broadcast here).”