A story is told about some shipwrecked people together in a long, narrow lifeboat. The boat is so long that the people in the front of the boat are quite far from the people in the back. This distance and their perilous situation distort their thinking.
When the front of the boat springs a leak, a man in the...
I am going to make this short and sweet. In the Second Book of Samuel, King David in his last words proclaims: “The God of Israel spoke; of me the Rock of Israel said, ‘He that rules over men in justice, that rules in the fear of God, Is like the morning light at sunrise on a cloudless morning,...
The reports about the debt crisis are endless, and the arguments seem ideological. National debt here in the United States will be a major political issue in the presidential campaign. But the debt crisis in the European Union seems more destabilizing. Will the EU fall apart? Will countries choose to leave...
Tomorrow we will celebrate the 4th of July, our national Independence Day. I have to ask myself how we are doing at this “one nation, under God” thing. A quick look at the news reveals how divided we are, how angry we are, what opposite visions we have for the future. The presidential election campaign...
I love music from lots of different genre, but there is one song that every time I hear it, I get goose bumps all over. That song is “Let There Be Peace on Earth”. To me, this is more than just a song; it’s a beautiful prayer of hope and peace. Those goose bumps I mentioned always get me at the same...
U.S. sisters (a.k.a. “nuns”) received loads of attention from certain Vatican offices these last few months. Whether it’s the apostolic visitation report, the assessment of the LCWR or the critique of a book, if you follow Catholic websites and blogs, one would think this is the only news nuns are...
