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Our Need to Give to the Poor
We need to give to the poor, not because they need it, though they do, but because we need to do that in order to be healthy. That’s an axiom
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Struggling to Understand Suicide
Sadly, today, there are many deaths by suicide. Very few people have not been deeply affected by the suicide of a loved one. In the United States alone, there are
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On Whining and Weeping
Karl Rogers once suggested that what’s most private within us is also most universal. His belief was that many of the private feelings that we would be ashamed to admit
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Why Faith Feels Like Doubt and Darkness
God is ineffable. This is a truth that’s universally accepted as dogma among all Christians and within all the great religions of the world. What does it mean? In essence,
https://ronrolheiser.com/why-faith-feels-like-doubt-and-darkness/
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An Addiction to Comfort
Fifty years ago, Kay Cronin, wrote a book entitled, Cross in the Wilderness, chronicling how, in 1847, a small band of Oblate missionaries came from France to the American Pacific
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Raissa and Jacques Maritain and the New Evangelization
“The Church has sanctified extreme passions, blessed the frenzied, acclaimed the neurosis it had previously canalized and nothing, it seemed, could stop me at its door. Nothing.” These are the
https://ronrolheiser.com/raissa-and-jacques-maritain-and-the-new-evangelization/
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Contemplative Sound Bytes
Recently I attended an Institute on contemplative awareness at which James Finley was the keynote-speaker. He brings some pedigree to the task. He has nearly forty years of experience as
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Struggling for Our Father’s Blessing
When I was in elementary school, we were made to memorize a number of poems by William Blake. We didn’t understand them, but they had a wonderful jingle to them,
https://ronrolheiser.com/struggling-for-our-fathers-blessing/
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Andrew Greeley – RIP
As a young seminarian in the late 1960s, I was very taken by the writings of Andrew Greeley, a priest in Chicago, who was churning out books on popular spirituality.
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Always in a Hurry
Haste is our enemy. It puts us under stress, raises our blood pressure, makes us impatient, renders us more vulnerable to accidents and, most seriously of all, blinds us to