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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.
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Demonizing Other People
Virginia Woolf once said that life is what we see in each other’s eyes. Today, sadly, we rarely see each other’s eyes and we rarely see life either because we
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What Does God Look Like?
Years back, as a young professor of theology, I had a dream, to write a book on the question of faith. My hope was to shed some light on why
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Grace and Forgiveness
A recent issue of Sojourners magazine (July 1994), featured articles by two prominent American Roman Catholics, Rosemary Radford Ruether, a leading feminist, and Richard Rohr, the articulate young Franciscan founder