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New Year’s Resolutions Testify To Faith
If you are like I am then you most likely act out a certain cycle every year. Each Jan. 1, you make New Year’s resolutions, keep them for a while,
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Silent Hidden Gestation
Some years ago, I visited the Holy Land. It’s a strangely different place. Nobody doubts that. Virtually every inch of its soil has been soaked in blood, including the blood
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God’s Descent into the Secular
There are two great drives inside us: Part of us is driven towards the secular. The pagan has such an overwhelming reality and power that we are almost helpless before
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Preparing for Christmas
Christmas is like a diamond you hold up in the sun. Every time you move it even a little it gives off yet a different sparkle. It is inexhaustible in
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Silent Hidden Gestation
Some years ago, I visited the Holy Land. It’s a strangely different place. Nobody doubts that. Virtually very inch of its soil has been soaked in blood, including the blood
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Non-Violence Essential To Moral Living
Perhaps the deepest imperative within the entire moral life is that of being non-violent. It undergirds everything else: Thou shalt not violate others! So reads the most basic of all
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In Exile
Twelve years ago, I began writing this column. I chose to call it In Exile. There was a double reason for this choice: Superficially, I called it that because, at
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The Communion Of Saints: An Untapped Doctrine
I believe in the communion of saints! This is a dogma of our creed upon which we too seldom reflect. What does it mean to believe in a communion of
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Some Rules for Peacemaking
Perhaps the deepest imperative within the entire moral life is that of being non-violent. It undergirds everything else: Thou shalt not violate others! So reads the most basic of all
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Is God There In The End?
In Brian Moore’s recent novel, No Other Life, his central character, Michael, is a Roman Catholic priest teaching in one of the schools run by his order in Haiti. Fr.