• Fr. Walgrave, We’ll Miss You

  Recently, almost unnoticed, a brief obituary note appeared in a number of religious and secular newspapers around the world: Theologian dies – Belgian theologian, Jan Hendrik Walgrave, dead at 75.

  https://ronrolheiser.com/fr-walgrave-well-miss-you/

• Monasticism And Family Life

  There is a tradition, strong among spiritual writers, that we will not advance within the spiritual life unless we pray at least an hour a day privately. I was stressing

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• Abortion: No Quick Solutions

  For more and more of us, I suspect, the issue of abortion brings up feelings of helplessness that border on despair. The issue is so important that a conscientious person

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• In Much Better Hands Than Ours

  Recently, I attended a funeral of a young man, a relative of mine, who had been killed in an automobile accident. He was 18, had recently graduated from high school

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• Guidelines For The Long Haul

  Several years ago, Daniel Berrigan wrote a book entitled Ten Commandments for the Long Haul. It offered advice on how to sustain us until Christ returns. Here, with the help

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• A Showdown With True Love

  As a child, raised on the old catechisms, I was taught to believe in purgatory. In that concept, after death you went to heaven, hell or purgatory. Heaven and hell

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• Alive With Prophetic Pain

  Recently, I had a lengthy talk with a friend of mine who is a Catholic feminist. Articulate and not afraid to express her anger, she talked openly about her pain.

  https://ronrolheiser.com/alive-with-prophetic-pain/

• Friendship Is Liberating, Too

  I was raised to believe that prayer and private morality were the foundations of the spiritual life. They were non-negotiable. You were considered a good Christian if you prayed, privately

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• Just Too Busy To Bow Down

  Theologian Jan Walgrave, recently commented that our present age constitutes a virtual conspiracy against the interior life. That is a gentle way of saying that, within our culture, distraction is

  https://ronrolheiser.com/just-too-busy-to-bow-down/

• Dare To Be One In A Thousand

  Recently, I was giving a talk to a group of young adults preparing for marriage and was trying to challenge them with the Christian teaching on love and sexuality. They

  https://ronrolheiser.com/dare-to-be-one-in-a-thousand/