• A Right Way Of Dying

  I do not want to die from some medical condition; I want to die from death! Ivan Illich wrote that. What’s meant here? Don’t we all die from death? Of

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• Faith and Levity

  Shusaku Endo, the Japanese author of the classic novel, Silence (upon which Martin Scorsese based his movie) was a Catholic who didn’t always find his native land, Japan, sympathetic to

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• Beyond Criticism and Anger – The Invitation to a Deeper Empathy

  Recently I attended a symposium where the keynote speaker was a man exactly my age. Since we had both lived through the same cultural and religious changes in our lives,

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• Suicide and the Soul

  More than fifty years ago, James Hillman wrote a book entitled, Suicide and the Soul. The book was intended for therapists and he knew it wouldn’t receive an easy reception

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• The Search for an Indubitable Truth

  In a book, 12 Rules for Life – An Antidote to Chaos, that’s justifiably making waves in many circles today, Jordan Peterson shares about his own journey towards truth and

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• What’s in a Name?

  We’re called to a name change. We’re all familiar with the incident in the bible where God changes the name of Abram to Abraham. The change seems so small that

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• Bridging the Unbridgeable Gap

  “Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no

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• Chastity and Love

  Woe to chastity that is not practiced out of love, but woe to love that excludes chastity. These are the words of Benoit Standaert, a Benedictine monk, and I believe

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• An Ode to the Church

  Carlo Carretto was an Italian monk who died in 1988. For many years he lived as a hermit in the Sahara Desert, translated the scriptures into the Tuareg language, and

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• How to Respond

  Sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait. That’s a counsel from the Book of Lamentations and while perhaps not the best response

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