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Storms We Cannot Weather
In the musical Les Miserables, there’s a particularly haunting song, sung by a dying woman (Fantine) who has been crushed by virtually every unfairness life can deal a person. Abandoned by her
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The Meaning of Jesus’ Suffering
I heard this story from a renowned theologian who prefers I don’t use his name in sharing this, though the story speaks well of his theology. He was giving a
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Finding our Vocation
Many of us are familiar with a famous line from C.S. Lewis who, when writing about his conversion to Christianity, shared that he was “the most reluctant convert in the
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The Place of Silence
Many of us could use more silence in our lives. I say this cautiously because the place of silence in our lives isn’t easy to specify. Silence is a complex;
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John Allen RIP
The renowned anthropologist Mircea Eliade once issued this warning: No community should botch its deaths. He’s right. Death washes clean and only after someone is gone can we fully drink
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The Meek Are No Longer Inheriting the Earth
It is becoming ever more acceptable today, whether in politics or in general discourse, to speak of brute human strength, force, and power as being the forces we need to
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Myrrh – The Unwanted Gift
In the Gospels we find the story of the three Magi, coming from the East and laying their gifts at the crib of the newborn Jesus. The gifts were not
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Our Struggle with Love and with God
God is love. If this is true, and it is, then why are we afraid of God, and why are we afraid to die? We live in too much fear
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Praying for Israel and Jerusalem
I once lived in community for several years with an Oblate brother who was wonderfully generous and pious to a fault. But he struggled to pick up symbol and metaphor.
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The Best Books that Found Me in 2025
St. Augustine famously said: Concerning taste there can be no dispute. So, with no promise that these books will do for you what they did for me, these are the
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