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Some Advice on Prayer from an Old Master
At the risk of being simplistic, I want to say something about prayer in a very simple way. While doing doctoral studies, I had a professor, an elderly Augustine priest,
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Faithful Friendship
I grew up in a close family and one of hardest things I ever did was to leave home and family at the age of seventeen to enter the novitiate
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Facing Our Tough Hours
Discernment isn’t an easy thing. Take this dilemma: When we find ourselves in a situation that’s causing us deep interior anguish, do we walk away, assuming that the presence of
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Leaving Peace Behind as Our Farewell Gift
There is such a thing as a good death, a clean one, a death that, however sad, leaves behind a sense of peace. I have been witness to it many
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Fever
John Updike, after recovering from a serious illness, wrote a poem he called, Fever. It ends this way: But it is a truth long known that some secrets are hidden
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God and the Principle of Non-Contradiction
It is funny where the lessons of our classrooms are sometimes understood. I studied philosophy when I was still a bit too young for it, a nineteen year-old studying the
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Churches as Field Hospitals
Most of us are familiar with Pope Francis’ comment that today the church needs to be a field hospital. What’s implied here? First, that right now the church is not
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Huge Stones and Locked Doors
Soren Kierkegaard once wrote that the Gospel text he strongly identified with is the account of the disciples, after the death of Jesus, locking themselves into an upper room in
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The Meaning of Jesus’ Death
Jesus’ death washes everything clean, including our ignorance and sin. That’s the clear message from Luke’s account of his death. As we know, we have four Gospels, each with its
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The Dispelling of an Illusion
We don’t much like the word disillusionment. Normally we think of it as a negative, something pejorative, and not as something that does us a favor. And yet disillusionment is