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Prayer as Seeking God’s Guidance
[Third in a four part Advent series on Prayer] In her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, Dorothy Day tells of a very difficult time in her life. She had just converted
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Praying So As Not To Lose Heart
[Second of a four part Advent Series] One of the reasons we need to pray is so that we don’t lose heart. We all do sometimes. We lose heart whenever
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Prayer as Seeking Depth
[First in of a four-part Advent series on Prayer] In our more reflective moments we sense the importance of prayer; yet, we struggle to pray. Sustained, deep prayer doesn’t come
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Empathy for the World
There’s a story told, more legend perhaps than fact, about a mayor of a large American city in the late 1960s. It wasn’t a good time for his city: It
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Love Beyond Naiveté and Romance
Several years ago, a Presbyterian minister I know challenged his congregation to open its doors and its heart more fully to the poor. The congregation initially responded with enthusiasm and
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Loneliness – Its Ultimate Agony
When I was 22 years old, a seminarian, I was privileged to have a unique kind of desert experience. I sat with my siblings in a palliative care room for
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The Catholic Press Loses a Friend
No community should botch its deaths! Those are the words of the famed anthropologist, Mircea Eliade, and I use them here to introduce a tribute to Otto Herschan, a long-time
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God and Sex
Our world thinks it understands sex. It doesn’t. Moreover it is beginning to ignore and even disdain how Christianity views sexuality. And we are paying a price for this, mostly
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The Preciousness and Joy of a Whole Number
Today we don’t attach a lot of symbolism to numbers. A few, mostly superstitious, remnants remain from former ages, such as seeing the number seven as lucky and the number
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Unconscious Images that Deeply Influence Us
Among all the great stories in the world, the most common, best-known, and perennially intriguing, are those that deal with heroes and heroines. These are stories that describe someone, a
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