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Chastity Revisited
Already thirty years ago, before the sexual revolution, Albert Camus had written: “Chastity alone is connected with personal progress. There is a time when moving beyond it is a victory
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A Time for Reconstruction
During the past twenty-five years we have witnessed, both in the world and in the church, a deconstruction so radical that it has few parallels in history. In short, all
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Safe in God’s Arms
When someone close to us dies, especially if his or her life has been a rather troubled or painful one, we take consolation in the thought that he or she
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Social Justice: Not An Option
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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The Wreck Of The Deutschland
This is not an easy time to be a nun or a Roman Catholic sister. Inside sisters’ communities, vocations and finances are at a dangerous low and, outside, nun-bashing is
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No Rut Like My Own!
If you are over twenty-five years of age, and sensitive, there is a good chance that, like most of the rest of us adults in the Western world, you are
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Choosing Between Two Kinds of Storm
“We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.” T.S. Eliot wrote those words and, with them, suggests that our choice in this life is not between calm
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Difficulties In Living The Free Life
I am not sure how often I have read Zorba the Greek. It is a haunting book with a strange power to ignite. Most of us know the story. An
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I Believe In The Resurrection
In the early 1920s William Butler Yeats wrote a poem entitled, The Second Coming. Its message is strong, adult, and ultimately quite depressing. Yeats sees a certain dissolution of civilization
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By His Stripes We Are Healed
What a curious line, what a curious logic! One person gets lashed, another gets healed; one suffers, another is set free; one dies, another comes to life. An odd logic,