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Youth today – Who are they really?

May 26, 2016

A seminarian I know recently went to a party on a Friday evening at a local university campus.
Two major breakthroughs for greater inclusivity

May 20, 2016

Two significant things happened over the last week. One of them was the election of Sadiq Khan, son of a bus conductor and a seamstress, as mayor of London.
The ten commandments of mercy

May 20, 2016

Among the Ten Commandments, one begins with the word “remember”: Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day”.
An unsung prophet of our times

May 13, 2016

Few of us may have heard of him. The legendary peace activist, poet and nuclear weapons opponent Daniel Joseph Berrigan, SJ passed away on April 30 at the age of 94.
Daniel Berrigan – RIP

May 13, 2016

Before you get serious about Jesus, first consider how good you’re going to look on wood! Daniel Berrigan wrote those words and they express a lot about who he was and what he believed in. He died at age 94.
Sense of interconnectedness sparks thinking as global citizens

May 06, 2016

A study carried out by the BBC World Service has shown that more than half of those polled in 18 countries see themselves as global citizens.
Marking an anniversary

May 05, 2016

What we cease to celebrate, we will soon cease to cherish. This year, 2016, marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the religious congregation to which I belong, The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
Loyalty and patriotism revisited

May 02, 2016

In a recent article in America magazine, Grant Kaplan, commenting on the challenge of the resurrection, makes this comment: “Unlike previous communiti
The things that money can never buy

May 02, 2016

Even back in gospel times, they tried to put a price on Jesus, or rather on Judas. Thirty pieces of silver, they thought, was what it would take to bu
Love – a projection and a reality

Apr 22, 2016

The famed Jungian writer, Robert Johnson, makes this observation about falling in love: “To fall in love is to project the most noble and infinitely v