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Prayer As Keeping Us Outside The Great March
In virtually all of his novels, Milan Kundera, manifests a strong impatience with every kind of ideology, hype, or fad that makes for group-think or crowd-hysteria. He is suspicious of
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My Top Books for 2012
Concerning taste, there should be no disputes! St. Augustine wrote those words seventeen hundred years ago and their truth applies not just to taste in food, but also to taste
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King Herod and the Wise Men – A Christmas Challenge
Christmas 2012 The Christmas story is surely one of the greatest stories ever told. It chronicles a birth from which the world records time as before or after. Moreover, it
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In Safer Hands than Ours
One of my jobs as a priest is to preside and preach at funerals. Never an easy task. The deep truths of our faith which can be so consoling at
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Marking an Anniversary
In late November 1982, while a graduate student in Louvain, Belgium, I began writing this column. That makes for thirty years! When I began writing this, I had no idea
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Honoring Life’s Complexity
In a lecture recently, I made the point that Jesus shocked people equally in both his capacity to thoroughly enjoy his life and in his capacity to renounce it and
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Working Too Hard – It Begins as Virtue and Ends as Escape
There are dangers in overwork, not matter how good the work and no matter how noble the motivation for doing it. Spiritual guides, beginning with Jesus, have always warned of
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Some Light-hearted Thoughts on a Very Heavy Subject
Some years ago, a friend of mine was facing the birth of her first child. While happy that she was soon to be a mother, she openly confessed her fears
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Sexuality – Its Power and Purpose
We are all powerfully, incurably, and wonderfully sexed, this is part of a conspiracy between God and nature. Sexuality lies right next to our instinct for breathing and it is
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Purgatory as Seeing Fully for the First Time
Imagine being born blind and living into adulthood without ever having seen light and color. Then, through some miraculous operation, doctors are able to give you sight. What would you
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