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Social Justice and Pop Icons
If one looks for what is wrong with society, one need not look far. A single image provides a whole commentary: We have rich athletes, making millions of dollars, asking
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Recognizing Him In The Spilling Of The Wine
Somebody once suggested that the words of scripture are like musical scores, mute of themselves, but alive when someone actually plays them. This is especially true of those texts in
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Overcoming Anger – The Final Spiritual Struggle
As a young man, Nikos Kazantzakis once sought spiritual guidance from a renowned master, an old monk named Father Makarios. In his autobiography, he describes a conversation he had with
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Jesus’ Way of Wisdom
Jesus states that he is the way that leads to life. What is this way of Jesus? Among other things, it is the way of wisdom, the way of pondering.
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A Mother Quivering With Delight
You don’t expect to see an icon of the trinity on an airplane, at least not on a really small commuter plane at 6:30 in the morning when it is
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And The Atoms Moved
Teilhard de Chardin was once asked by a critic: “What are you trying to do? Why all this talk about atoms and molecules when you are speaking about Jesus Christ?”
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Bury The Dead
Mircea Eliade, the renowned anthropologist, tells us that, within the wisdom of tribal cultures, there was often the belief that unless the dead were properly buried, with appropriate ritual and
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Ransom the Captive
The corporal works of mercy, as the phrase itself suggests, have to do with the physical, the material. Unlike the spiritual works of mercy, what is at stake is not
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Visit the Sick
Among all the corporal works of mercy, it would seem, we do the best with this one. At a more obvious level at least, we tend to fulfil our duty
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Clothe the Naked
“It’s the welfare bums, people on the dole, single mothers and their kids, the homeless and the street people who are bleeding our tax dollars! It’s not fair, not right.