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Dark Nights of Faith in Our Lives
When the memoirs of Mother Teresa were published they revealed that for the last 50 years of her life she had struggled painfully to feel God’s presence in her life.
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Evangelizing the Religious Imagination
A novel is meant to be, first of all, a work of art. That is why it is always risky to try to use a novel to try to promote,
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Beset By Weakness
Some years ago, Michael Buckley, a Jesuit theologian of exceptional insight, delivered a homily at the first mass of a young man who had just been ordained. His approach was
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Reading the Signs of the Times
There is a story told about the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova. During the Stalin purges, she was standing one morning outside a prison along with some other women, all of
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Struggling with our Own Inadequacy
It is hard to measure up. In our lucid moments we admit this. Rarely is there a day when we could not echo these words by Anna Blaman: I realized
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On the Shores of Babylon
Henri Nouwen once remarked that he found it curious that many of the people he knew who were very angry and bitter were people he had met in church circles
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The Problem of Suffering and Evil
How can there be an all-loving and an all-powerful God if there is so much suffering and evil in our world? Perhaps that is the most difficult religious question of
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The Struggle to Love
After his wife died, Jacques Maritain published her journals. In the preface to that book, Raissa’s Journal, he talks about her death, brought on by a stroke, and then gives
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Honesty as Sobriety
You are as sick as your sickest secret! That’s a popular aphorism in recovery circles and it speaks a deep truth. If we have to hide something then we aren’t
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The Gospel Unfolding in History
We didn’t stop burning witches because we stopped reading scripture. We stopped burning witches because we kept on reading scripture. Gil Bailie, author of Violence Unveiled, wrote those words and