• Celibacy And Holy Longing

  Celibacy, as it is lived out today within clerical and religious life, has few defenders. More and more persons are suggesting the church should change the rules and no longer

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• Social Justice Essential to the Gospel

  Margaret Atwood once suggested that things which are painful and difficult to say should, nonetheless, be permitted the present tense. Painful truth, she submits, should not be washed or cauterized,

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• Smiling God Undermines Our Workaholism

  Scripture frequently uses these words to challenge us and we too rarely reflect upon them: Has anyone ever believed in a God as great as ours? Great, not just in

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• Walking With The Alienated

  If there is a leitmotif running through virtually all of recent Catholic literature it is the phrase: option for the poor. We are to walk with the poor, the marginalized,

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• Self-Pity And Care-Giving

  There is a story told about Saint Vincent de Paul which, while perhaps embellished by myth, needs nonetheless to be told and told and told again for its challenge is

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• Finding Our Loved Ones After Death

  “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” Curious words? Perhaps. They contain, though, a secret. Those words were spoken by an angel to Mary Magdalene on Easter morning.

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• Equipped To Handle Frustration

  My dad has been dead for nearly 25 years and yet hardly a day goes by when I do not feel in some way, however inchoate, his influence. As I

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• Nuggets to Keep

  In a poem entitled, The Gift, Li-Young Lee, says that, at age seven, his father gave him a special gift, something to keep. Reading is like panning for gold, a

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• Shamed In Our Enthusiasm

  Shame on you! You should know better!  How often have we heard those awful words? Or, seen them, unspoken, real, in another’s eyes? No words, but the clear message: You

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• Appreciative Consciousness

  What God is as great as our God? Scripture frequently uses these words to challenge us and we too rarely reflect upon them: Has anyone ever believed in a God

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