The hardest prayer in St. Ignatius’s spiritual exercises eventually brought peace to the dying.

I stopped running from the ordination question and started wrestling with it.

Twenty years ago, the Doomsday Clock, a well-known barometer of how close the world was to nuclear holocaust, stood at three minutes before the fateful midnight hour. The nuclear arms race was in full force. The fear of nuclear war was palpable. We held our collective breath and prayed mightily that