• On Not Letting the Sky Wilt

  Words are really all we have to fend off the chaos. They can’t make or remake reality, but they can give us a vision with which to lift ourselves out

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• Mary as a Model of Faith

  “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!” Picture the scene: Jesus has just impressed a crowd and a woman, probably a mother, shouts out:

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• The Mary of Piety

  Devotional prayer to Mary, the mother of Jesus, has always been the center-piece within Catholic piety. Among other things, those devotions have focused upon various Marian shrines, places where Mary

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• Faith and a Time of Agnosticism

  Why does our generation struggle with faith? Martin Heidegger once gave this answer: “We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.” What does he mean by

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• Jesus’ Moral Loneliness

  Therese of Lisieux was much photographed. Her sister, Celine, loved using a camera and took lots of photos of Therese. Many of these survive. And there’s an interesting element in

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• Purgatory Revisited

  “A common soldier dies without fear, Christ died afraid.” Iris Murdoch wrote those words. Among other things, theyunmask the simplistic notion that if one has faith and a clean conscience

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• A Wisdom Born of Pain

  John Powell once wrote a remarkable little book entitled, Unconditional Love, the story of Tommy, a former student of his who died of cancer at age twenty-four. Shortly before he

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• An Invitation to a Deeper Virtue

  Perhaps the most misunderstood text in all of scripture is the one where Jesus says to us: “Unless your virtue goes deeper than that of the scribes and the pharisees,

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• The Value of Praying a Doxology

  A friend of mine likes to tease the Jesuits about their motto: “For the greater glory of God.” “God doesn’t need you to enhance his glory,” he likes to kid

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• Conservatism is a Good Place to Start From

  Sometimes it’s helpful to imagine you’re a strip of litmus paper and then analyze the colours you turn as you fall into the various acids of life and religion. I

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