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Ralph Waldo Emerson calls the stars in the night sky “envoys of beauty, lighting the universe with their astonishing smile”…
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There’s an axiom that says: Roman Catholics tend to adore Mary while Protestants and Evangelicals tend to ignore Mary. Neither…
Our culture doesn’t give us easy permission to mourn. Its underlying ethos is that we move on quickly from loss…
Anyone who has ever watched a fire knows that at a point the flames subside and disappear into smoldering coals…
The Gospel of John presents us with a very powerful and rather earthy mystical image: As John describes the Last…
Recently a student I’d taught decades ago made this comment to me: “It’s been more than twenty years since I…
One of the richest experiences of grace that we can have this side of eternity is the experience of friendship.…
For centuries, suicide was considered as an act of despair and despair itself was seen as the most grievous sin…
Dreaming is sometimes the most realistic thing we can do. Or, is there still something else we might do, like…
Cardinal Francis George was once asked what he thought of the radical pacifism of people like Dorothy Day and Daniel…