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God Sends The Rich Away Empty!
In her recent book, For the Time Being, Annie Dillard, although herself a woman of mature faith, raises a series of hard questions about faith. For example, at one point,
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Celebrating the Jubilee Year
It only happens every thousand years! Millennium clocks around the world are already ticking down to zero time, midnight, December 31, 1999, the end of one millennium and the start
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The Power of Helplessness
In her book, Dead Man Walking, Helen Prejean describes her feelings as she watches her first execution. Everything inside her is sick and confused. She knows that what is about
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The Summer of my Discontent
Nothing in my youth remains as clear in my mind and as formative of my soul as is the summer when I was fourteen years old. For any boy, that’s
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The Least Glamorous of all Sicknesses
Few things trigger as negative a feeling as paedophilia, particularly when its perpetrator is someone within a position of sacred trust. For many people, paedophilia is the ultimate horror. Outrage
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-least-glamorous-of-all-sicknesses/
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The Humiliation of God
One of the characteristics of divine revelation is that it often breaks through where you least expect. Grace invariably catches you unaware, a surprise. Frequently too the surprise is not
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Holy Thursday and the Eucharist
One of the things we celebrate during Holy Week is the institution of the Eucharist. This mystery, as we know, makes God present, real and physical, in the world in
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Commandments For The Long Haul
(last in a 6-part series on family) Some years ago, Daniel Berrigan wrote a little book called Commandments for the Long Haul. One of his commandments offers an important counsel:
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Sustaining Family Life Today
(Fifth in a six-part series on family) There is a story told of a Jewish farmer who, while ploughing in his field one Friday afternoon, was too distracted to notice
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Family Life as Sacrament
The catechism from which I drew my religious instruction as a child stated that a Christian sacrament was an “outward sign instituted by Jesus Christ to give us grace.” Later