• A Marvellous Symphony

  James Hillman once said that a good image is the most open, most exploratory, most suggestibly subtle, yet most precise thing to allow the soul the widest imagination for its

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• The Polished Stone

  As a young seminarian, I spent a summer working in a retreat house. The priest directing the house had a curious hobby—he polished stones. During long, solitary walks he would

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• The Gender Of God

  One of the more contentious debates within contemporary circles concerns the gender of God. For centuries, the common, though unreflective, notion was that God was masculine—God the Father! Today there

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• A Tired, Depressed People

  We are a people who are losing heart. The effects of this can be seen almost everywhere. There is a loss of heart for fidelity within relationships, as less and

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• The Power Of The Resurrection

  We know that Christ has risen from the dead because, despite all death and wound, love exists and love continues in the world.  Charity is the new life of Easter.

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• A Thousand Little Things

  Few spiritualities have ever caught our attention and imagination as has “the little way” of Therese of Lisieux. By the same token, few spiritualities have been as badly misunderstood. For

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• Resolutions That Last

  Most of us, I suspect, have our own long history of broken New Year’s resolutions. How many times have we begun a new year with the sincere intention of ending

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• Signs of a Good Marriage

  No amount of preaching shapes a soul as much as does the influence of a good Christian life. If that is true, and it is, then no marriage course is

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• The Incarnation Means God is in the Ordinary

  Nikos Kazantzakis, the author of Zorba the Greek, once told this parable: A man came up to Jesus and complained to him about the hiddenness of God. “Rabbi,” he said,

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• Reacting to Sinead

  Funny how religion finds its way into everything. A few weeks ago, Irish singer, Sinead O’Connor, appearing on the U.S. television series, Saturday Night Live, tore up a picture of

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