Awareness of God’s call, traveling light and risking rejection, these are the carry-ons for true prophets.
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You Can’t Go Home Again, Yeshua
Today’s Gospel provides a window into the life of the pre-Easter Jesus.
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Two Lives Restored
The Jesus who emerges from these stories is one who is compassionate in the face of human suffering and who makes the needs of these sufferers the norm for his action, to the disregard of social taboos and conventions.
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Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet
What would be a theologically sound, spiritually empowering and ethically challenging theology of Mary, mother of Jesus the Christ, for the 21st century?
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In the Tradition of Sister Madeleva
Convergence 2000 began appropriately with a meal at the guest house and ended with the reading of "The Madeleva Manifesto: A Message of Hope and Courage." The warm welcome and hospitality of Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Ind., surrounded us during the entire weekend of April 27
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A People of the Covenant
Two themes echo throughout the readings: covenant and sacrifice.
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One Year After Columbine
Perhaps the N.R.A. has met its match. All the money in the world cannot contend with the rage of a mother torn from her child.
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The Healing Touch
In the oppressive heat of the midday sun, the nun in full habit held two heavy shovels. She walked just behind the gravediggers, who tried to carry with some dignity a lifeless body wrapped in old hospital bedsheets. We had arrived here in India just a few weeks before this burial.
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A Living God Present in Spirit and Power
The readings offer directions for proclaiming the presence of the Spirit in the church.
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Most Holy Trinity
The Trinity presents a series of paradoxes. It is the central mystery of Christian faith, yet its power in Christian life gets lost amid a tangle of theological distinctions and philosophical speculation.