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Becoming The Real Thing
One of the most debilitating aspects of life today is that we do not admit to each other the cost of struggle. Our real fears are seldom allowed to surface.
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Whose Kingdom, Lord?
Every so often, a book comes along that is truly moral. It challenges so deeply our moral conceptions that we end up in a certain darkness, punched to a new
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Married To Sacrifice
Recently, I was asked to preach at a liturgy within which a young woman made her final vows as a religious sister. A rare event. But she is a rare
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Our Greed Pulls The Trigger
It is getting to be frightening to watch the news. Terrorism is everywhere, and daily we appear less capable of protecting ourselves against it. Still fresh in our minds is
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Closed To Love, Open To Hate
We live in a time of pain and division. Daily, in the world and in the church, hatred, anger and bitterness are growing. It is ever harder to live at
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Paschal Mystery: The New You
Following is the last of a two-part series on the paschal mystery. Nothing in our culture prepares us to die. Invariably death takes us as conqueror, against our wills. We
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Paschal Death: Letting Go
Following is the first of a two part series on the paschal mystery. It’s cruel to talk about death, but it’s crueler still not to. Adult life is not child’s
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Making Room For Compassion
This column is a response to two letters I received recently: The first came from a lady whom I do not know. Among other things, she writes: “I appreciate your
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Abortion
Few things divide us as emotionally and decisively as does the issue of abortion. Any doubts I might have had about that were put to rest last week when I
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Sexuality
As a Catholic priest, I am seldom taken seriously when I speak or write about sex. Invariably the reaction is: “What can you know about it, you don’t have sex!”