Fundamentalist clerics violate the rights of the faithful
By Robert Mickens, published on Feb 20, 2020 and re-published in La Croix in August 2020. What’s the greatest threat to the Roman Catholic Church today – a schism? Or…
Letting go of old ideas of order, an invitation to metanoia: to turn around or change our minds
Richard Rohr, August 2020 Order is the first stage of healthy development. To continue growing, we must go through a period—or even many periods—of Disorder. The pattern of transformation involves…
The laws of the universe seem to be focused on connection, attraction, and a cosmic holding mechanism. We are connected to a future good, and moving toward something better. Trajectory of human life is toward mutuality and care.
Richard Rohr, Wed Aug 12, 2020, The Cosmic Order Matter is the common, universal, tangible setting, infinitely shifting and varied, in which we live. . . . By matter we…
Book Review of Timothy Egan’s ‘A Pilgrimage to Eternity’
No-Bullshit Spirituality by Santiago Ramos, United States, August 6, 2020 Published on Jan. 11, 2020. Hiking somewhere near the Italian mountain town of Aosta, about five hundred miles from Rome, Timothy Egan’s…
On non-violence and being peace
On Center for Action and Contemplation blog, July 26-July 31, 2020 Gandhi’s spirit of non-violence sprang from an inner realization of spiritual unity in himself. —Thomas Merton (Sunday) Authentic spirituality is…
McElroy homily for ordination of Aux. Bishop Bejarano: ‘Our mission must not be one of recovery but of transformation’
Attacks upon solidarity do not merely place people on the margins of society and Church, they exclude them entirely from meaningful participation. Exclusion is a reality in which issues of…
Sara Jolena Wolcott’s reflection
Sara Jolena Wolcott’s article, “From the Darkness,” stems from her personal experience working as a chaplain on the notorious NYC jail, Rikers Island. It’s about climate change, the prison industrial…
Revolutionary enough to resist “powerful but petrified institutions”
Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003) is an example of a contemplative who finds she must take action. I met her once in Germany at the Kirchentag (an assembly sponsored by the German…
