Fame is not known as a condition that makes it easier for people to be kinder human beings.
Gerald W. Schlabach
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Signs of That Peace: Peacemaking is everybody’s business
For decades now, popes and episcopal conferences have been insisting that to work for peace is the vocation of all Christians. Too often, however, peacemaking seems the domain of special vocations or technical specialists. This is certainly not the church’s hope. As Pope John Paul II proclaime
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What Will You Take Up?: Suggestions for action and reflection during Lent
Suggestions for action and reflection during Lent
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Praying in the Wild: Amid bears, grief and danger, a man finds peace.
While camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeast Minnesota last fall, which I regularly do, I had my first encounter with a bear. Black bears are shy, but a dry summer had left few berries, and previous messy campers had advertised the area as a promising place to stave off a
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Just Policing, Not War
Virtually every Christian tradition is trying to have it both ways on war. Twenty years ago the U.S. bishops published The Challenge of Peace, which explicitly paired just war and pacifism as legitimate Christian responses to war. Three years later, Methodist bishops in the United States made a simi