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The Restless Heart

Catholic teaching and Christian moral reflections on prayer, love, conscience, sacrifice, and the freedom to serve God.

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  • Catholic teaching and Christian moral formation

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In The Image of God
Essay | Jan 23, 2026 | v1.4 | 8 min read
An introduction to Catholic social teaching
In The Image of God
  1. All Is a Gift
    Essay | Oct 2, 2026 | v1.0 | 3 min read
    Gratitude does not require possession forever. We can receive gifts with care and let them go when holding on would turn us from God.
    In warm kitchen window light, a woman offers an earthenware bowl of pears to another person's open hands across a wooden table.
  2. Whose Yes
    Essay | Jul 8, 2026 | v1.0 | 3 min read
    A promise can serve love, or serve the self.
    Editorial cartoon showing a person holding a rose-gold YES card between a FOR THEM door with someone waiting at a table and a FOR ME door with a mirror, applause marks, and a spotlight.
  3. The Last Victim
    Essay | May 15, 2026 | v1.2 | 5 min read
    Oppressor Frameworks vs. The Love of Christ
    A wooden cross standing on a chapel-library table beside a balance scale and two blank ledger pages.
  4. Outside the Garden
    Essay | May 11, 2026 | v1.2 | 6 min read
    America lost the moral story that made inherited freedoms intelligible.
    Editorial cartoon showing travelers buying exit tickets from a snake vendor in a lush garden, beside a travel poster and a closed Garden of Eden gate opening onto an industrial wasteland guarded by a winged child holding a fiery sword.

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