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Benedictine options: an escape or an experience of essence

Benedictine options: an escape or an experience...

Great cultural change — the kind that upends our social givens — always spawns division. More times than not, the changes create fissures among us that can lead to whole...

Benedictine options: an escape or an experience...

Great cultural change — the kind that upends our social givens — always spawns division. More times than not, the changes create fissures among us that can lead to whole...

Am I going to heaven?

Indeed, I believe that God created “heaven.” I simply don’t believe that heaven is the Sugarcane Land that we present it to be.

Am I going to heaven?

Indeed, I believe that God created “heaven.” I simply don’t believe that heaven is the Sugarcane Land that we present it to be.

Can a Woman Be Catholic?

Slowly, slowly I began to ask myself a different question: Could a woman really be a Catholic at all? The fullness of the faith was surely not meant for us.

Can a Woman Be Catholic?

Slowly, slowly I began to ask myself a different question: Could a woman really be a Catholic at all? The fullness of the faith was surely not meant for us.

The prophetic spirit

The eternal icon of the prophet occupies the corner of my desk. The gaunt, wisp of a figure, arms thrown wide, head up and shouting to the sky, looks to...

The prophetic spirit

The eternal icon of the prophet occupies the corner of my desk. The gaunt, wisp of a figure, arms thrown wide, head up and shouting to the sky, looks to...

A prophetic spirituality

What does the prophetic tradition, the prophetic dimension of the spiritual life, have to do with us?

A prophetic spirituality

What does the prophetic tradition, the prophetic dimension of the spiritual life, have to do with us?

A Psalm for July 4th

There are two concepts in U.S. history that deserve to be revisited in these times. The first is “patriotism.” The second is “jingoism.”

A Psalm for July 4th

There are two concepts in U.S. history that deserve to be revisited in these times. The first is “patriotism.” The second is “jingoism.”