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July 2019

July 06, 2019

The Same Thing

“About Jesus and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t...

July 06, 2019

Is there anything more urgent?

All we need is the tiniest bit of compassionate imagination to be able to see...

July 05, 2019

On Using Cliches to Shed Light on Cliches

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Eli Wiesel Many times the...

April 2019

April 20, 2019

Holy Saturday Catechesis: Liturgy of Light

The final Triduum presentation I do each year is a catechetical lesson on the Liturgy...

April 19, 2019

Way of the Cross at Franciscan University (2019)

In a year in which we've begun to ponder that what is most dear to...

April 19, 2019

Good Friday Catechesis: The City of Jerusalem

On Good Friday each year, the catechesis I offer to children (and their parents) of...

April 18, 2019

Holy Thursday Catechesis: The Cenacle

Since 1997, I have belonged to five parishes, but no matter where I am during...

April 16, 2019

Our Body

It’s a great miracle that human beings were ever passionate about the problem of...

April 08, 2019

To Love People

“I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing...

April 07, 2019

Irrevocably Astonished

“Christ is that infinitely wondrous event which compels a person, so far as he experiences...

March 2019

March 13, 2019

Redeeming the Routine

Morality: Memory and Desire (part 2) My continuing work for School of Community (Find part...

March 08, 2019

Morality: Memory and Desire (1. Salvation)

For Lent, the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation in the US has proposed that we...

February 2019

February 11, 2019

A Free Abundance of Great Things at the Rimini Meeting

This article was written in 2010 Entry into the enormous conference center, where the Meeting...

February 11, 2019

The Passion for Culture, the Thirst for Meaning

“It is the presumption of old age that reality is shaped by our ideas. The...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

In Defense of Reading Pagans

Guest post by Stephen E. Lewis: Last week, a controversy erupted over a book I...

January 16, 2019

Seeing Inside a Mystery

There is a moment during the liturgy that can help children literally to "see" the...

January 14, 2019

Open door(s)

Lena Dougherty spent most of her adult life in Bulpitt, Illinois, where she raised five...

January 13, 2019

Parable of the door(s)

All Paths Diverge One imposing human fact chases us and tags us with garish, looping...

January 09, 2019

Which hill will you die on?

Priesthood begins on Calvary but ends on Mount Tabor; while instead, marriage begins on Tabor...

January 04, 2019

wormholes

The Lives of the Saints: "I had to call, even though I'll see you in...

January 01, 2019

How We Imagine Her

International Woman of Mystery We don't know what colors she preferred. Was she shy, prone...

December 2018

December 31, 2018

Welcome to Terra Incognita

During the planning and preparation for the Convivium workshop weekend (November 9-11, 2018; theme: Terra...