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A message about God's love
… went down to Haiti after that terrible earthquake. I was visiting with a very good friend of mine down there, Father Andre Pierre, who is the rector of the Catholic University. The day of …
Patriarch: Lebanon a model for Arab democracies
… by his Vicar General, Archbishop Paul Sayah. Any mistakes with the transcription are entirely mine and NCR's. --Tom Gallagher …
MSW on Roberts' \"The Emerging Church\"
… an apostle. But, reading Roberts examination of those whose views are more progressive than mine own, I was reminded of something that those of us who adhere to a more conservative …
Jesuit who replaced slain Salvadoran priests dies
… as you know. When I ask you and Monseñor Romero to pray, I mean: Let us pool our faith. Mine is weak enough, but with all of us, that is another matter. God wants to give life more than …
Dreams and nightmares
… life but a dream. I suddenly found myself in a dream with a child -- it must have been mine since I was nursing it, but the child was not real to me. I did not have my joy in it until …
'Hope&Joy' in South Africa: New things, old things and things that are the same
… now, but this does not seem to be a popular idea in some quarters. Some (including a friend of mine, now a professor, from our days in London studying for our master's) want to reinstate the …
How George Harrison changed the way we believe
… will come when you see we're all one / and life flows on within you and without you." "I Me Mine," the final song recorded by the bickering Beatles, attacked "the ego, the eternal problem." …
Honduran bishop to run for office because politics 'screwed the poor'
… with productive land. But there's a lot of injustice," he said. He cited the example of gold mining in his diocese: He said foreign companies fly the gold out of Honduras on helicopters …
We laugh because we know who we are
… neither closets nor an adjoining bath. Its primary virtue as a bedroom was its distance from mine. The evening had been long and loud. My mother and I were tired. We stood silently at the …
Irish Catholicism, from the street and the pew
… my grandmother. The church would describe me, for my ‘lifestyle’ -- the church’s term, not mine -- as a ‘terrible’ Catholic. “The church is fighting a losing battle in the quest to retain …
Kissling Is Wrong Again
… I will take Kissling's word for the assertion that Father Place had no answer. Here is mine. The Church is not saying people are unfree - legally, we are not talking about the moral …
God's invitation
… the protagonists for bad behavior. Yet the word of God, as always, speaks to your life and mine here in the autumn of 2011. Clearly, the sacred authors are asking whether we are alert to …
Morning Briefing
… Bishops step up drive vs mining …
New faces of consecrated life in Latin America
… handcrafts in hopes of earning enough money to keep their children from drifting toward the mining camps and brothels across the mountains, down a newly paved highway. In Palenque, Mexico, …
Gold brings little wealth to Guatemala
… we work on together. The four of us from the U.S. attended a special presentation on Goldcorp Mining Company. Goldcorp is mining gold (what else?) in the western mountains of Guatemala, in … of the profit, split between the national government and the two villages adjacent to the mine. But the people haven’t seen the books. Last Wednesday, Sept. 21, Goldcorp was removed from …
MSW Replies to Fr. Komonchak
… difficult issues. No one has yet done so. I readily confess it will take a greater mind than mine to forge such a synthesis. But, I think sufficient time has passed that we must ask the …
Palestinian Statehood? Not Tall Enough
… are stubborn things and the fact that Jerusalem is not going to be divided in your lifetime or mine is a stubborn fact. The UN should consider the light of the Palestinians to be sure. It …
Colombia's Uribe not to testify in human rights case
… 2002 until last year, had been subpoenaed to testify in a case brought against the U.S. coal mining company Drummond over its ties with a Colombian paramilitary group designated as a …
Dark Thoughts on 9/11
… to whom would we go?” My dark thoughts are still with me, but they are no longer entirely mine. I wait for my answers with all the other chaplains at the empty tomb, knowing that the …
Morning Briefing
… , Time Capsule: A 33-part series on history mined from the first 100 years of Arkansas Catholic and its predecessors. BXVI: …