• Pagan Beauty

  In his book, The Divine Milieu, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin confesses that throughout his life he was haunted by two great loves, God and pagan beauty. Both had the power

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• In Praise of Skin

  In her book, Nature and Other Mothers, Brenda Peterson has a marvellous little essay entitled: In Praise of Skin. Her reflections begin on a personal level. When she was thirty-five

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• Needed: Saints and Prophets within Secularity

  Recently I attended a meeting at which religious leaders from a dozen European nations made presentations on the state of the church in their respective countries. Again and again, the

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• What makes for a practicing Christian?

  There’s a national phone-in show on radio in Canada that I try to catch whenever I can. Recently its topic for discussion was: Why do so few people go to

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• Learning the Language of Rebirth

  It was George Carlin, I think, who once quipped: “When I was born, I was so stunned that I couldn’t speak for two years!” There’s a homily in that. Recently

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• When Doing Nothing is Enough

  What can you do in the face of powerlessness? What can you do in a situation where, it seems, anything you can say or do will only make things worse?

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• Daily Resurrection

  Gilbert K. Chesterton once wrote a poem he entitled, Second Childhood. It speaks of the resurrection:     When all my days are ending        And I have no song to

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• The Tearing of the Temple Veil

  There are so many haunting lines in the passion narratives. Who of us, for instance, is not stirred in the soul when the passion story is read in church and

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• The Desert of Gethsemane

  There’s a remarkable expression in popular language that describes one of the most painful moments within Jesus’ life, his “agony in the garden”. The phrases describes his inner struggle the

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• The Desert – the place of God’s Closeness

  In her biography, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day shares how, shortly after her conversion to Catholicism, she went through a painful, desert time. She had just given birth to her

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