• Praying the Psalms

  God behaves in the psalms in ways that God is not allowed to behave in theology. That quip comes from Sebastian Moore and should be highlighted at a time when

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• The Dark Night as Impasse

  What happens to us when we experience a dark night of the soul? What’s happening and what’s to be our response? There are libraries of literature on this, each book

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• Breaking Faith with Each Other

  Is this new or are we just more aware of it? Hatred and contempt are everywhere. They are in our government houses, in our communities, in our churches, and in

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• The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod

  During the years I have been writing this column, I have rarely mentioned the fact that I belong to a religious order, the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. That omission

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• The Law of Gravity and The Holy Spirit

  A sound theology and a sound science will both recognize that the law of gravity and the Holy Spirit are one in the same principle. There isn’t a different spirit

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• Piety and Humor

  Piety is the enemy of humor, at least whenever something less than piety is masquerading as piety. Here’s an example: I once lived in community with an overly serious man

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• My Top Ten Books for 2023

  There are thousands of new books published each year and they join the millions that are already in print.  And so, a book has to find you as much as

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• Merry Christmas or Season’s Greetings?

  What goes around comes around, so it would seem. Christians took a pagan feast and sacralized it as an occasion to celebrate Jesus’ birthday, and now the secular world is

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• Joseph and the Christmas Story

  There are countless persons, basilicas, churches, shrines, seminaries, convents, towns, and cities named after St. Joseph. My native country, Canada, has him as its patron. Who exactly is this Joseph?

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• Lighting an Advent Candle

  In the days of apartheid in South Africa, Christians there used to light candles and place them in their windows as a sign to themselves and others that they believed

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