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Fear Not You Are Inadequate!
Some twenty years ago, while on a retreat, an elderly nun was assigned to me as director. She proved to be a woman of rare maturity, providing the guidance that
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Living with an Unnatural Wound
Few things in life are as difficult as the death of a young person. Many is the parent, the mother or the father, with a broken heart. They have lost
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Christian Perspective
Perspective is everything. When its lost, headaches and heartaches set in, take root, and begin to dominate our lives. When we lose perspective everything is reduced: the wide horizon, the
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On Jesus and Socrates
Iris Murdoch, with a single phrase, states a great irony: A common soldier dies without fear – Jesus died afraid. There is a fruitful meditation in that and it has
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Some Gathering Hymns for Social Justice
The wages of work is cash. The wages of cash is want more cash. The wages of want more cash is vicious competition. The wages of vicious competition is the
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Recovering Catholics
“I’m a recovering Catholic!” More and more, especially within intellectual circles, this is a trendy thing to say. I have heard it off of the lips of authors, rock singers,
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Henri Nouwen: In Memoriam
The great anthropologist, Mircea Eliade, used to say that no community should botch its deaths. To not properly attune oneself to the significance of a person’s death is to miss
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The Gentle Powerless Power Of God
Daniel Berrigan was once asked to give a conference at a university gathering. The topic given him was something to the effect of “God’s Presence in Today’s World”. His talk,
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An Apologia
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column (August 30, 1996) about aloneness and family which argued that God meant the words: “It is not good to be alone”
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Why it’s not Good to be Alone
“It is not good to be alone”—not just in terms of emotional loneliness but also in terms of healthy human and moral growth. “The human being needs a helpmate.” Those