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Caring for Our Soul
What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but suffer the loss of your own soul? Jesus taught that and, I suspect, we generally don’t grasp the
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Things Beyond Our Imagination
Recently, at an academic dinner, I was sitting across the table from a nuclear scientist. At one point, I asked him this question: Do you believe that there’s human life
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Our Overstimulated Grandiosity – and Our Impoverished Symbols
There are now more than seven billion people on this earth and each one of us feels that he or she is the center of the universe. That accounts for
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God’s Ineffability – What’s Revealed in Jesus’ Eyes?
God, as I understand him, is not very well understood. A colleague of mine, now deceased, was fond of saying that. It’s a wise comment. Anyone who claims to understand
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Dorothy Day – A Saint for Our Time
Sometime soon we will witness the canonization of Dorothy Day. For many of us today, especially those who are not Roman Catholic, a canonization draws little more than a yawn.
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Human Nature – Is it Somehow all Wrong?
An American humorist was once asked what he loved most in life. This was his reply: I love women best; whiskey next; my neighbor a little; and God hardly at all!
https://ronrolheiser.com/human-nature-is-it-somehow-all-wrong/
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Political Correctness – Swallowing Hard
Just because something is politically-correct doesn’t mean that it might not also be correct. Sometimes we have to swallow hard to accept truth. Some years ago, I served on a
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A Eucharistic Prayer over an Awakening World
On the Feast of the Transfiguration in 1923, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin found himself alone at sunrise in the Ordos desert in China, watching the sun spread its orange and
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An Obituary for a Suicide
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That axiom still holds true for our understanding of suicide. Despite all the advances in our understanding, there are still
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Children of both Heaven and Earth
“Because, my God, though I lack the soul-zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the