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  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.

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  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

  
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  Freeing God from captivity

  Apr 22, 2016

  It seems to me that not a few people would like to place God in a familiar place, so that we can look him up when we need him.

  
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  A crowded hospital, the Panama Papers and squandered public funds

  Apr 15, 2016

  The other day, I visited a relative in a general hospital.

  
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  The power of prayer and ritual inside our helplessness

  Apr 15, 2016

  In the movie based upon Jane Austen’s classic novel, Sense and Sensibility, there’s a very poignant scene where one of her young heroines, suffering from acute pneumonia, is lying in bed hovering between life and death.

  
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  A living memorial for the Year of Mercy in every diocese

  Apr 08, 2016

  Today’s Gospel reading contains a wonderful resurrection scene at the conclusion of the Gospel of John.

  
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  A shirt of flame

  Apr 08, 2016

  They say that the book you most need to read finds you when you most need to read it.

  
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  The Triumph of Goodness

  Apr 01, 2016

  The stone which rolled away from the tomb of Jesus continues to roll away from every sort of grave.