From one of the most influential religious and social leaders of our time.
Would I do it all again?
When we’re young, everything is about the future. It’s where we’re going next that counts. In early middle age, the big question in life is whether we are where we’re...
Would I do it all again?
When we’re young, everything is about the future. It’s where we’re going next that counts. In early middle age, the big question in life is whether we are where we’re...
The very thought of simply listening
Of all the attitudes we bring to prayer, presence is at once one of the simplest and one of the most difficult. Buddhists call it “taming a monkey mind.” We...
The very thought of simply listening
Of all the attitudes we bring to prayer, presence is at once one of the simplest and one of the most difficult. Buddhists call it “taming a monkey mind.” We...
Life will become its own reward
The sixth step of humility is to be “content with the lowest and most menial treatment.” We might say, “to be content with less than the best.”
Life will become its own reward
The sixth step of humility is to be “content with the lowest and most menial treatment.” We might say, “to be content with less than the best.”
Who has lived well?
We can’t cage life. We cannot freeze the present happy day under glass. We can’t impale it like a butterfly in a frame. No, life moves inexorably on, whether we...
Who has lived well?
We can’t cage life. We cannot freeze the present happy day under glass. We can’t impale it like a butterfly in a frame. No, life moves inexorably on, whether we...
The proper place for devotion to Mary
No one ever taught us Marian theology in any organized academic way. They didn’t need to even try.
The proper place for devotion to Mary
No one ever taught us Marian theology in any organized academic way. They didn’t need to even try.
An Icon for Our Century
It is two thousand years later and little or nothing has changed. The voice of women proclaiming the presence of Christ goes largely unconfirmed.
An Icon for Our Century
It is two thousand years later and little or nothing has changed. The voice of women proclaiming the presence of Christ goes largely unconfirmed.