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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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The Truth Sets Us Free
A friend of mine, an alcoholic in recovery, is fond of saying: “Alcoholism is only 10% about a chemical, and 90% about dishonesty. You can drink, as long as you
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Second Birth
Nothing is more evident than the existence of God – and nothing is more obscure. God is everywhere and yet it’s virtually impossible to imagine how God exists. Why? If
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What The Next Hundred Years Will Bring
In his new book, God’s Politics, Jim Wallis predicts 50 things that will happen during this next century. Among these, he foresees the following: 1) Faith will be defined much
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Purity
In the early 1960’s, Michel Quoist wrote a book entitled, Prayers, which became immensely popular. The book combined rare depth with a language bordering on poetry. One of the prayers