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Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Justice and charity – revisited
we’re all familiar, i suspect, with the difference between justice and charity. charity is giving away some of your time, energy, resources ...
What constitutes fidelity?
it’s becoming increasing difficult in today’s world to trust anything or anybody, for good reason. there is little that’s stable, safe to le...
Saints for a new situation
everywhere in church circles today you hear a lament: our churches are emptying. we’ve lost our youth. this generation no longer knows or un...
Living out a vocation
what does it mean to have a vocation? the term gets batted around both in religious and secular circles, and everyone assumes its meaning is...
Faith and dying
we tend to nurse a certain naïveté about what faith means in the face of death. the common notion among us christians is that if someone has...
The frustrating struggle for humility
it’s hard to be humble, not because we don’t have more than enough deficiencies to merit humility, but rather because there’s a crafty mecha...
The grace within passivity
a friend of mine grew up with five siblings and an alcoholic father. the effect of her father’s alcoholism was devastating on her family. he...
Grieving as a spiritual exercise
in a remarkable book, the inner voice of love, written while he was in a deep emotional depression, henri nouwen shares these words: the gre...
The arrival of refugees, old and new
the religious congregation to which i belong, the missionary oblates of mary immaculate, has had a long relationship with the indigenous peo...
Creating and holding space for our brokenness
some years ago i went on a weekend retreat given by a woman who made no secret about the fact that not being able to have children constitut...
Jesus Christ: the person and the mystery
we quite naturally tend to think of the word “christ” as jesus’s second name. we think of the name “jesus christ” in the same way that we th...
Some counsels on faith and religion for our present generation
it’s no secret that today we’re witnessing a massive decline in church attendance and, seemingly, a parallel loss of interest in religion. t...
The scent of humility
according to the 7th-century bishop and theologian isaac the syrian, a person who is genuinely humble gives off a certain scent that other p...
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