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Parish community and the spiritual life
There are two things to remember about your spiritual life: 1) It extends way beyond your prayer life to the way you treat others, the way you spend your money, the way you maintain your self-respect and even to your politics; 2) It also includes the way you relate to …
St. Teresa of Avila reminds us of the need to 'perch for awhile'
Inevitably, while sitting at my computer trying to write, e-mail notifications distract me.
A lesson more than a century in the making
One of the great things about living in a digital world is that media doesn't have to be mass in order to be affordable.
'Digital immigrants' around the family holiday table
hen I asked my daughter what classes my grandson was taking, she told me one was called "digital immigrants."
Need and gift matched for an Eritrean refugee
Not too long ago, a 15-year-old refugee from Eritrea was found walking along the side of a road in Hampton, England.
Make the most of weekends
There's an ancient song from the 1980s with the lyric, "Everybody's working for the weekend." If there ever were a better example of truth in art, I can't think of it.
The beauty of human sexuality
In an age of porn and sleaze, the need for a deepened respect for the positive aspects of human sexuality is real. In marriage, the desire to give one's self to the delight of the beloved is a sign of Christian holiness.
Before troubles erupt, think prevention
First, it was my car. Next, my refrigerator. Then, my computer. By the time I saw my cardiologist today, I fully expected to leave his office with a ream of new prescriptions and a few new cardio-preserving exercise moves. Why?
Love and loyalty through the years
I was a Jesuit scholastic teaching at Scranton Prep in Pennsylvania when the interstate highway network was launched. Some of the boys I taught graduated in 1958. That class gathered for a reunion a few weeks ago (as they now do every two years) and were kind enough to invite …
Rethinking Thanksgiving after the Year of Mercy
This year, Thanksgiving week starts right after the formal conclusion of the Extraordinary Year of Mercy.
'Tattoos on the heart'
The other day, I climbed out of bed a little before 4 a.m. to head to the Philadelphia airport.
The Real Presence
When I was a graduate student in Belgium, I was privileged one day to sit in on a conference given by Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Brussels. He was commenting on the Eucharist and our lack of understanding of its full richness...
Successful people don't wait their turn
When we're young, we take the lessons taught by our parents at face value. Be friendly. Do the right thing. Eat your Brussels sprouts.
How to cope with holiday grief
I was startled a few weeks ago when familiar feelings of grief surfaced. It was evening, mid-October, and there was a sadness I hadn't felt for a while.
Catholic social teaching can help make this country great again
I do not recall the context, but I do remember that a student at then-Loyola College in Baltimore, where I taught in the 1960s, said to me on one occasion, "You know, Father, it is so incredible that it's almost unbelievable."
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