• Chaos And Original Sin

  Shortly before she died of cancer, Princeton mayor, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, commented in The New York Times that too many people spontaneously judge a cancer victim as somehow responsible for

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• The Traditional Idea Of Love And Marriage – Under Siege

  Most of us who are over 35 were raised on a certain morality regarding marriage, sex, and family. In brief, we were taught the ideal of one sexual and marriage

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• Gratitude the Basic Virtue

  There’s a Jewish folk-tale which runs something like this: There once was a young man who aspired to great holiness. After some time at working to achieve it, he went

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• A Grieving Church

  We are, among other things, a church which is grieving. That insight, that we are suffering in this particular way, that we are a church which is grieving, is, I

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• Justice and Spirituality

  A crucial spiritual task for our time is that of bringing together justice and contemplation, commitment to the poor and genuine worship of God. Few do it well. More often

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• Taken Completely by God

  Theresa of Avila would sometimes become very bold in her prayer and say to God: Kiss me full on the mouth. This is her own twist to the opening line

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• Truth and the Resurrection

  As children we live in a dream world, naively believing that there is somewhere a divine magic which can, and will in the end, swish away all evil, injustice, and

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• An Evening With Jim Wallis

  A crucial spiritual task for our time is that of bringing together justice and contemplation, commitment to the poor and genuine worship of God, Few do it well. More often

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• Life’s Quest for Service

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said something to the effect that we reach moral maturity on the day we realize that, ultimately, we have to choose: genuflect before something higher

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• A Cast of Characters

  Here are some quotes that might prove helpful before approaching the cross to do reverence on Good Friday. “I’m a Roman soldier, a gambler, I size things up, I calculate,

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