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On Sabbatical
Recently I began a year of sabbatical. Initially I was euphoric … one whole year with no responsibilities except those that are self-imposed! What a delicious luxury! That euphoria hasn’t
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Goods, Gods and Eastern Europe
The Gorbachev years have brought, as we know, the breakup of radical Marxism in Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall, the symbol of unfreedom, has been smashed. All across Eastern Europe
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The Journey Of A Soul
Nothing is as important today in theology and in church life as is the task of continuing the marriage between social justice and the Gospel. One of the groups who
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Hesitation and Reserve … Virtue or Timidity?
Czechoslovakian novelist, Ivan Klima, ends his book, My First Loves, with the following lines: “Suppose I spent my whole life just waiting, waiting for the moment when at last I
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Interruptions Can Be Our Real Work
David Steindl-Rast once commented that we tend to be resentful when things interrupt our work until we realize that, often times, interruptions are our real work. Most of us tend
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Annulments – Catholic Divorce?
In past few years Roman Catholic marriage tribunals have been granting annulments with increasing frequency. This has not gone unnoticed among both conservative and liberal critics. Among conservatives one hears
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Abrasive Rhetoric
A couple of years ago, I was at a conference on social justice. The final speaker was a very impassioned young man and after his talk several of us gathered
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Masculine Spirituality
This is not an easy time within which to know what it means to be a man. I am not referring here to the classical philosophical quandary: “What does it
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Sex As Sacrament
A Catholic journalist recently commented that the world will begin to take the church seriously when it talks about sex if the church, first of all, affirms what it should
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The Struggle for Wholeness
Contemporary spirituality tends to identify holiness with wholeness. Given that theology has always affirmed that grace builds on nature, that equation is, if taken correctly, good algebra. What is less