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We Have Gone Too Far
About a year ago, I was giving a workshop when a man about my own age made the following comment: “I shudder when I think about the Catholicism we were
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Drawing Fire From Tradition
A couple of years ago, a group of Christians who are very involved with justice issues in the Third World wrote a short booklet inviting Christians in the First World
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Ten Years Of ‘In Exile’
This week marks the 10th anniversary of this column. The WCR published my first-ever column on Nov. 15, 1982. Ten years, hundreds of columns and one anthology book later it
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Mourning Incompleteness
There is a story in the Old Testament that both shocks and fascinates by its sheer earthiness. A certain king, Jepthah, is at war and things are going badly for
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Grieving Life’s Inadequacy
Someone once suggested that we have two great struggles: The first half of life is spent struggling with the sixth commandment, the second half struggling with the fifth. We spend
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Social Justice Revisited
Few groups have acted with as much moral passion and energy during these past years as have the various social justice groups within the church and within society. From church
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The Spirituality of Eugene de Mazenod
During the years that I have written this column, I have rarely referred to the fact that I belong to a religious order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. That omission
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Absent From Our Own Lives
Recently I had dinner with a young man and woman who are close friends of mine. They had been married for less than two years and were expecting their first
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Blessed By Our Roots
Several years ago, when l still taught on a college staff, I had a colleague, a priest, who used to travel nearly 200 miles regularly to visit his invalid mother.
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Solitude Sends Us Reeling
A few summers ago, I decided to spend three months in a Trappist monastery. I was tired out from a very busy year within which my work kept me over-active,