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Remaining in the Upper Room
Peter Maurin, the man who helped Dorothy Day found the CATHOLIC WORKER, used say: “When you don’t know what else to do, keep going to meetings!” Sound advice. Jesus, it
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God’s Risk…..Our Freedom
Why doesn’t God make things easier? Perhaps the most vexing faith-question of all-time is the problem of God’s silence and his seeming indifference: Why does God allow evil? Why do
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Practical Hope
Karl Rahner once defined hope this way: A woman sees the tiny rivulet of her life and fears that it might not mean anything, that it might die out completely.
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And the Whole World Changed
Iris Murdoch once said that the whole world can change in fifteen seconds. She was talking about falling-in-love. Hatred, it seems, can do the same thing: On Tuesday morning, September
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God Underneath – A Priest’s Diary
Several months ago, the religious editor at Doubleday sent me pre-release copy of a book by a young priest from New York named Edward Beck. Entitled, God Underneath, Spiritual Memoirs
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Being Born From Above
In a wonderful series of commentaries on Scripture, John Shea presents a powerful story on what it means to be born again, to be born from above, as Jesus says.
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Receiving our Faith Tradition
Kathleen Norris, commenting on her own faith-journey, makes an interesting comment regarding the ambivalent way in which faith and church have come down to us. Her words: “As its Latin
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A Culture of Amazement
In the mid-1990s, a novel by Robert Waller, The Bridges of Madison County, took America by storm. It was the number-one, best-selling book for an entire year and eventually was
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Anxiety as the Opposite of Faith
The opposite of faith in scripture is not doubt but anxiety. To lack faith is not so much to have theoretical doubts about God’s existence as it is to be
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Real and False Humility
In his inaugural address, Nelson Mandela suggests that false humility hurts us just as much as false pride. His words: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our