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Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut
When I was 17 years old and a novice in the Oblate novitiate, one Saturday afternoon, while horsing around in the lake with my fellow novices, I almost drowned. I
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Breaking The Eucharistic Bread
There is parable about a Cretan peasant that I heard some years ago from John Shea. It runs this way: There once lived a peasant in Crete who deeply loved
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A Child and the Kingdom
Recently I was with a family I know quite well for a picnic supper. It was a gorgeous summer evening and we were sitting on the grass enjoying sandwiches and
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Sexuality and Honesty
Simplistic thinking is always harmful and this is particularly evident when we look at how, so often, we think about our sexuality. Invariably we are either too hard or too
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Finding Rest For Our Souls
Several years ago, Yale philosopher, Nicholas Wolterstorff, wrote a book entitled, Lament for a Son. It’s a chronicle of his struggles to come to grips with the death of his
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Rhetoric Which Divides Community
Recently I published a reflection which, following the intuition of some saints and mystics, hints that the final end of history might be the conversion of the devil himself and
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Infantile Grandiosity and the Image of God
For nearly 200 years the intellectual world has not been kind to believers. Beginning with the Enlightenment, which debunked religious authority as a criterion for judgment, the intellectual world has
https://ronrolheiser.com/infantile-grandiosity-and-the-image-of-god/
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The Eucharist as Sacrament of Reconciliation
Recently I wrote a piece on the Eucharist within which I shared the story of a man who had drifted away from the church, had returned, received the Eucharist without
https://ronrolheiser.com/the-eucharist-as-sacrament-of-reconciliation/
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Criticism
There’s confusion today, among conservatives and liberals alike, about what it means to be critical. The common notion is that a critic debunks the inflated, exposes the rotten, and challenges
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How Not To Commit The Original Sin
Some years ago, I sat in on a series of lectures on the theology of the Trinity given by James Mackey. At one point in these lectures, Mackey suggested that
https://ronrolheiser.com/how-not-to-commit-the-original-sin/