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Step 6: It is possible to be contented even with disappointments

Step 6: It is possible to be contented even wit...

While the world around us is pushing and shoving for preference — accumulating the baubles of the time, getting caught in the rip tide of competition that comes with getting...

Step 6: It is possible to be contented even wit...

While the world around us is pushing and shoving for preference — accumulating the baubles of the time, getting caught in the rip tide of competition that comes with getting...

Introduction to New Series on Humility

Introduction to New Series on Humility

“How about if we spend some time talking about humility?” writes Tom Roberts, executive editor of NCR in his introduction to a new series by Joan Chittister that will appear...

Introduction to New Series on Humility

“How about if we spend some time talking about humility?” writes Tom Roberts, executive editor of NCR in his introduction to a new series by Joan Chittister that will appear...

Fixing everything: First, let God be God, Benedict of Norcia's first rule of humility

Fixing everything: First, let God be God, Bened...

There's been a lot of foot-stomping and harrumphing going on in Washington, D.C., in the last several weeks. First, someone walked out of a meeting about … oh, yes, almost...

Fixing everything: First, let God be God, Bened...

There's been a lot of foot-stomping and harrumphing going on in Washington, D.C., in the last several weeks. First, someone walked out of a meeting about … oh, yes, almost...

How to Save Western Civilization — Again

How to Save Western Civilization — Again

Sinking ships are not difficult to identify. You can watch their long, slow, laborious decline as the stern begins to slip away and the bow, the head of the ship,...

How to Save Western Civilization — Again

Sinking ships are not difficult to identify. You can watch their long, slow, laborious decline as the stern begins to slip away and the bow, the head of the ship,...

Trump destabilizes the presidency and the nation's soul

Trump destabilizes the presidency and the natio...

There was a time when Christmas season damped out the noises of the mundane. Not now. Now there is a great deal more static in the United States than any...

Trump destabilizes the presidency and the natio...

There was a time when Christmas season damped out the noises of the mundane. Not now. Now there is a great deal more static in the United States than any...

COP24: It's Not About Resources Anymore; It's About Moral Maturity

COP24: It's Not About Resources Anymore; It's A...

I just came back from the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Poland. It was a meeting we should all have been able to attend.

COP24: It's Not About Resources Anymore; It's A...

I just came back from the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Poland. It was a meeting we should all have been able to attend.