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A Heart With One Room
Our age is witnessing an erosion of Catholicism. The consequence of this, besides our dram somberness, is a polarization which, both in the world and in the church, is rendering
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Church Needs More Laughing Fools
We take ourselves too seriously. In the end, we are too pompous about our projects, causes, ideologies, and enthusiasms. This is not to deny that, in the world and in
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Love Is Coming Home
The human heart is complex. Many of us have learned this through much pain. It can give us the assurance that what we are experiencing is truly love and then,
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Worldly Evil: The Faith Test
American novelist, James T. Farrell, once wrote: “I’d like to see God. I’d like to tell him a few things! I’d like to say, ‘God why do you create men
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Controversial Film Misunderstood
090188 Much controversy has surrounded the movie, “The Last Temptation of Christ.” Directed by Martin Scorsese, a Roman Catholic and former seminarian, this film, based upon Nikos Kazantzakis’ novel of
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Can You Ever Really Leave Home?
Several years ago, Carlo Carretto, one of the great spiritual writers of our time, returned to Italy from the Sahara desert after many years as a monk among the Bedouin.
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Living Under A Merciful God
In the past few years, both when teaching and writing, I have frequently been challenged by persons who feel that I am going soft on part of the Christian message.
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Be Brave, Admit Your Sinfulness
Several years ago, after concluding a confession within which she had admitted to some rather serious things, a lady asked me: “What would you call those things? My neuroses? My
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Crying Out For Real Community
Some years ago, I clipped a letter out of a magazine. A lady was explaining why she had trouble accepting the Christian faith. She wrote: “Do not talk to me
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Community – Our Greatest Need
(First of a two-part series) I grew up in a church which was concerned with apologetics. We were forever worried about making ourselves credible. A lot of effort went into