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Our Inability to Cast Out Demons
The older I get, the more I realize that there is a huge difference between speaking effectively, perhaps even brilliantly, and actually changing anybody’s life. It’s one thing to impress
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Proofs for the Existence of God
Can you prove that God exists? Some of the greatest philosophers believed that it can be done. Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibnitz, Spinoza, Hartshorne, among others, all tried to do it.
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On Being Jealous of God’s Generousity
“The cock will crow at the breaking of your own ego – there are lots of ways to wake up!” John Shea gave me those words and I understood them
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Acknowledging our own Complexity
As a seminarian, I was introduced to the writings of Thomas Aquinas. I was nineteen years old, young for philosophy, and his abstract language befuddled me for a time. But
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On Carrying Ecclesial Tension
We disagree a lot and are forever frustrated with each other. That’s true in all families, communities, and churches. In this world, there’s no life together without a shadow. Inside
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Moving to a New Job and a new City
Never assume that your life is as interesting to others as it is to yourself. A wise axiom. In the more than twenty years I’ve been writing this column, I
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When Feeling Down and Out
In 1946, with the memory of war still fresh and the ruins of bombed buildings all around him, Karl Rahner preached a series of Lenten sermons in Munich. He reminded
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From Depression To Delight
It’s not easy to be grown-up and not live in a certain depression. Depression is the disease of the normal person. But what afflicts most of us is not clinical
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Keeping Our Loved Ones Connected To The Body Of Christ
A friend of mine, in his early forties, is the kind of person you want as a friend. Honest, gracious, generous to a fault, kind-hearted, full of humour, he brings
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A Lesson From Some Young Missionaries
The religious congregation to which I belong, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, has a long, proud history of sending young men off to faraway lands. More recently, however, our
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