• Father’s Day

  Father’s Day. What do you celebrate if you lost your father a long time ago? My father died 38 years ago, I was twenty-two and just beginning to appreciate what

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• Chastity And the Enchantment of Life

  More than a generation ago, already before the sexual revolution, Nobel-prize winning novelist and philosopher, Albert Camus, had written: Chastity alone is connected with personal progress. There is a time

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• Our Inner Garment

  Many things divide us: language, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, politics, ideology, culture, personal history, temperament, private wounds, moral judgments. It is hard, in the face of all this, to see

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• The Many Faces of the Eucharist

  Christians argue a lot about the Eucharist. What does it mean? What should it be called? How often should it be celebrated? Who should be allowed to fully participate? There

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• A Saint and Compassion Fatigue

  There is a story told about Saint Vincent de Paul. Perhaps it’s partly myth, but its challenge is real nonetheless. Vincent once gave an instruction to his religious community that

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• The Secret of a Monk’s Cell

  Monks have secrets worth knowing, though sometimes the value of a certain secret isn’t immediately evident. One such secret concerns the monk’s cell and the importance that classical spiritual writers

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• The Mystery of Giving and Receiving Spirit

  There are different ways to be present or absent to each other. For example, when Jesus is saying farewell to his disciples he tries to explain to them some of

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• Hatred and the Gospel

  There is a popular theme within Christian apologetics that goes something like this: Christianity is the most hated of all religions and that is a certain proof of its truth.

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• Mystic or Unbeliever

  A generation ago, Karl Rahner made the statement that there would soon come a time when each of us will either be a mystic or a non-believer. What’s implied here?

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• The Kenotic and the Triumphant Christ

  One of the deeper issues underlying the tension between liberals and conservatives in the church is the tension between the kenotic and the triumphant Christ, the tension between the Christ

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