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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.
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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
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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
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A Life Handcrafted By God
A soul is not something that is given us; it’s something that’s formed. Lately, I’ve taken to looking at who and what helped shape me. What lives and incidents, love
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No Salvation In Sexology
A nun I know was travelling one day by airplane and found herself engaged in a conversation with a lively young man. The young man had a myriad of questions,
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Hatred Is Not Always Bad
Our age is an angry one. Hatred abounds, both within the church and outside of it. A world rages in woundedness. Liberals hate conservatives, conservatives hate liberals; feminists tend to