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Articles by Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

About Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM
SISTER PAMELA SMITH, SSCM, is the Director for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the Diocese of Charleston. Email her at psmith@charlestondiocese.org.
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A spirituality for society

September 8, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final column in a series on Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhorta­tion, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). The Francis Effect is what writers like John Gehring have termed […]

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What makes marriage work?

August 25, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third column in a series on Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). Whenever celibates start talk­ing about sex and marriage, there are inevitable guffaws and […]

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Mercy is a fountain to extinguish the blaze of sin

August 10, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Editor’s note: This is the second column in a series on Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). Read the first column, Teaching young people how to navigate love and terror, […]

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Teaching young people how to navigate love and terror

July 26, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Editor’s note: This is the first column in a series on Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love). This series on “Amoris Laetitia/ The Joy of Love” would have started elsewhere […]

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Loving our neighbor even when it’s confusing

July 15, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

The Lord tells us that everyone is our neighbor — the stranger, the sad-faced child, the loner, the drunkard, the prostitute, the leper, the sell-out, the natural enemy. That means that everyone is worthy of […]

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What’s up there on your family tree?

June 20, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

My cousin Pat has a long-standing addiction to Ancestry.com. At a dinner the evening before my mother’s funeral, she announced that we have a family connection to Millard Fillmore. Frankly, I knew little about him […]

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All-around education helps us glimpse the mind of God

June 4, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

It isn’t every day that we find the likes of Fareed Zakaria and Blessed John Henry Newman in the same sentence and, in a larger sense, on the same page. The first is the familiar […]

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Practicing the under-publicized virtue of recreation

May 25, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

Suddenly coloring books for grown-ups are all the rage. At one time, a few craft shops here and there stocked little books of geometric designs in black and white for adults to tint and possibly […]

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What we may see on our back roads reveals our true glamor

May 13, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

South Carolina is glamorous. There are shell-strewn sands running from North Myrtle Beach to Hilton Head. Charleston has its spires, Rainbow Row and out­lying plantations. Columbia displays high culture, USC Gamecocks and all the symbols […]

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Are we simply a secular society?

May 5, 2016 Sister Pamela Smith, SSCM

During Holy Week 2016, New York’s Cardinal Dolan posted a complaint about the fact that basketball’s March Madness includ­ed Good Friday games in which two Catholic universities would be com­peting. Apparently no one represent­ing these […]

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