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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
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Questions Without Answers
091994 American author, Sam Keen, recently published a book entitled, Hymns to an Unknown God. The book is outstanding—not because it is deep, but because it is typical. What Keen,
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A Childhood Friend
When I was a child, I had a friend, a very good one. We were friends the way only 12-year-olds can be. Ours was an amity sealed with all the
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Blessing As Dying To Give Life
We all live with constricted hearts. There is a tightness, an unfreedom, a timidity, a tangle of constrictions, inside of each of us that blocks warmth and intimacy. We try
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Staying in the Church
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