• Inviting Each Other to Our Better Selves

  I grew up in a rural area where most everyone was either a first or second-generation immigrant. Most of us were just above the poverty line, struggling economically and struggling

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• Feeding Off Sacred Fire

  There’s a lyric in a song by Gordon Lightfoot which tries to interpret the struggle going on in the heart of Miguel de Cervantes’ mythical hero, Don Quixote. His goodness

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• The Complex Mystery of Suffering

  Sometimes it is hard to tell sickness from health. When we’re suffering, is it an indication that there’s something wrong with us or might it be that the suffering is

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• A Mini Treason

  Thomas Merton once said that what he feared in his own life was not so much a massive betrayal of his vocation, but a series of mini treasons that lead

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• Science and Christian Faith – Friends Not Foes

  During most of the two thousand years that Christianity has existed it has not been friends with science, and science has not been friends with it. From the Church condemning

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• A Soul Friend

  One of the saints who speaks to me is Therese of Lisieux, commonly known as the Little Flower. This wasn’t love at first sight. For years I was put off

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• Struggling with Our Own Complexity

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, the founder of Madonna House, once gave a particularly insightful interview. A renowned and respected spiritual figure, she acknowledged that her path wasn’t easy, that she

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• Our Problems with Faith Today – A Diagnosis and a Prescription

  In 2007, Charles Taylor wrote a book entitled, A Secular Age which gave us a clear and comprehensive analysis of the secular age we live in and the implications of

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• And Time Started Over

  With the resurrection of Jesus, time started over. Simply put, up until Jesus rose from the dead all things that died stayed dead. After Jesus’ resurrection, nothing stays dead anymore.

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• And The Temple Veil was Ripped from Top to Bottom

  There are many haunting lines in the passion narratives. Who is not stirred in the soul when the passion story is read aloud in church and we come to the

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