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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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The Mystical Imagination
In her book, Sacred Heart, Gateway to God, Wendy Wright recounts her faith journey. She was a struggling Hollywood actress, more of an agnostic than a believer, when, while killing
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The Struggle To Understand Suicide
Every year I write a column on suicide because, among all forms of death, it’s still the one we struggle with the most. How can suicide happen? What makes a
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