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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,
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Listening to Christ’s Heartbeat
The last supper account in John’s gospel contains a curious picture. The evangelist describes the beloved disciple as reclining on the breast of Jesus. What is contained in this image?
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The Passing of a Shepherd
One of the foremost anthropologists of our century, Mircea Eliade, once commented that “no community should botch its deaths!” Deaths, like births, are important times, formative periods, for all families.
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Two Great gods
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