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I live on both sides of a border. Not a geographical one, but one which is often a dividing line…
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When is our life fulfilled? At what point in our lives do we say: “That’s it! That’s the climax! Nothing…
I do not want to die from some medical condition; I want to die from death! Ivan Illich wrote that.…
Shusaku Endo, the Japanese author of the classic novel, Silence (upon which Martin Scorsese based his movie) was a Catholic…
Recently I attended a symposium where the keynote speaker was a man exactly my age. Since we had both lived…
We’re called to a name change. We’re all familiar with the incident in the bible where God changes the name…
“Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to…
Carlo Carretto was an Italian monk who died in 1988. For many years he lived as a hermit in the…
There’s a rich literature being written today by some highly intelligent, sensitive men and women who might best be described…
Thomas Aquinas once suggested that it’s a sin to not give a compliment to someone when it’s deserved because by…
