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Wishful Drinking and Moral Resiliency
Daniel Berrigan once suggested, half-jokingly, that if Jesus came back today he would go into every psychologist’s office in the Western World and, using the whips and cords he used
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Our Struggle in Faith – Between Knowing It Is True and Believing it!
At the heart of our faith lies the deep truth that we are unconditionally loved by God. We believe that God looks down on our lives and says: You are
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Entering Lent
Sometimes the etymology of a word can be helpful. Linguistically, lent is derived from an old English word meaning springtime. In Latin, lente means slowly. Etymologically, then, lent points to
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Fidelity – Our Greatest Gift to Others
After the funeral of Martin Luther King, one of the newsmen covering the event stopped to talk to an old man standing at the edges of the cemetery. The reporter
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The Healing Embrace of the Eucharist
There are different kinds of loneliness and different kinds of intimacy. We ache in many places. When I was a young priest, newly ordained and barely beyond the loneliness of
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Maturity – Being Cool or Being Vulnerable?
All of us struggle to project a certain image of ourselves. No matter the effort, no matter the hidden cost, when we walk into our place of work or into
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Carrying Our Solitude at a High Level
In an autobiographical novel, My First Loves, Czech writer, Ivan Klima, shares how as a young man he struggled with a particular ambivalence. At one level, he wanted to be
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Our Struggle to Celebrate
It’s hard to celebrate properly. We want to, but we don’t know how. Mostly we celebrate badly because our idea of celebration is to overdo things. We try to celebrate
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Doing the Right Thing Because it is the Right Thing
“Have you ever done something simply on principle, because it was the right thing to do, knowing that you couldn’t explain it to anyone, without there even being a good
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What have you read lately that’s interesting?
“What have you read lately that’s interesting?” Since readers of this column sometimes ask me this question, I want to highlight some of the more interesting novels I have read
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