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The problem in the world and in the churches, Jim Wallis suggests, is that, perennially, conservatives get it wrong and…
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Simone Weil once commented that it’s not enough today to be merely a saint; rather “we must have the saintliness…
Each year, I write a column sharing with readers the title and a brief synopsis of the ten books that…
Growing up as a Roman Catholic, like the rest of my generation, I was taught a prayer called, The Act of…
The question of intercommunion within our churches today is a big one, an important one, and a painful one. I’m…
No community should botch its deaths. Mircea Eliade wrote those words and they’re a warning: If we do not properly celebrate…
Our differences are not a threat but a treasure. Jean Vanier, the Founder of L’Arche, who died in Paris on…
During the years that I served as a Religious Superior for a province of Oblate Priests and Brothers in Western…
Hell is never a nasty surprise waiting for a basically happy person. Nor is it necessarily a predicable ending for…
“I’m a practicing mystic!” A woman said that in one of my classes some years ago and it raised lots…