Eckhart warns us that the “merchant mentality” can take over our souls. Some people look on God as they do a cow—”for the milk and cheese and profit it makes…
Dom Hélder Câmara (1909-1999) was a Brazilian archbishop and brilliant nonviolent activist who offered a model for understanding how structural injustice leads to greater violence. [1] I overlay Dom Hélder’s…
We don’t seem to understand what evil is, how it operates, or what we can do, personally or collectively, to reduce its power over us and its impact on our…
An interview with Fr. Carlos Bresciani, SJ By Santiago Ramos, Commonweal, October 12, 2020 Mapuche people participate in the bicentennial celebration of the Battle of Rancagua. (Wikimedia Commons) The recent social…
Excerpt from Cardinal Blaise Cupich on the Pope’s new Social Encyclical: …(in the chapter) “Envisaging and Engendering an Open World,” Pope Francis begins a constructive project that occupies the remainder…
African-American mystic and theologian Howard Thurman speaks often and eloquently of the primacy of community. The loneliness of the seeker for a community is sometimes unendurable, he warns us. Thurman explains Adam’s…
Oct 12 2020, Richard Rohr One reason we lost interest in the concept of sin is because we usually heard it being used to judge, shame, exclude, or control others…
Speaking to “Studia Moralia,” Says From the Periphery, ‘You See the Raw, Real Reality, Without Any Mask’SEPTEMBER 30, 2020 12:20DEBORAH CASTELLANO LUBOVFEATURESWhatsAppFacebook MessengerFacebookTwitterShare Share this Entry “I believe that moral…
