• 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,

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• The Limits Of Love

  (Marriage Under Siege Pt II) The notion that the only proper way to fully express sexual love is within a life­long marriage is today under siege, both as a moral

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• Non-Selective Tears

  The signs of the times cry out to us … hear and respond to what cries for redemption! Few things cry out as loudly today as does the brokenness of

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• Understanding The Desert Of Loneliness

  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,

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• A Frustrated Hunger

  We all ache for community. Few longings within us are as incessant. Everywhere, it seems, people are looking for community and complaining about how their families, churches and civic circles

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• Playing In The Sun

  I love the sun. Something about it lifts my soul. My body too rarely gets enough of it. Against the advice of my parents, and now the doctors, I have

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• Faith Requires Religion

  Several generations ago, Friedrich Schleiermacher, a prominent Protestant theologian, wrote a book with a curious but revealing title. It translates something like: Speeches on Religion for those among the Cultured

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