Bishop John J. O’Connor, then the auxiliary bishop to the Military Vicar, wrote on chaplains in ‘America’ in 1982.
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Jesuit effort brings food and health care to the margins in East Timor
Jesuit effort brings food and health care to the margins in East Timor At the top of a hillside in East Timor, Christina Da Cruz and her colleague Leonora Mendonsa slowly maneuver an aging four-wheel-drive stacked with plates, spoons and a massive pot of soupy stew to a halt by a small, whitewashed church atop […]
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Lanier – Was Jesus a Crappy Disability Advocate?
My daughter has a disability. I don’t want Jesus to “fix” her. By Heather Kirn Lanier Heather Kirn Lanier teaches at Southern Vermont College and is the author of the memoir Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach For America (University of Missouri Press). I am a skeptic who goes to […]
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Meet the Dutch Exorcist-Doctors treating the mental health of Muslim immigrants
New and ancient paths to better mental health
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Why marriage brings you closer to God (and explains the Trinity)
In Christian marriage spouses retain their identity while bringing all else together as one.
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Does American exceptionalism clash with Pope Francis’ call to care for creation?
Pope Francis’ “Laudato Si’” presents a challenge to closed American exceptionalism.
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The separation of church and state presumes a distinction that does not exist in the actual world
Any involvement of the state in moral issues raises the question: Are the public officials qualified to do this?
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Your vote for a major party almost certainly will not matter. There is another way.
This is the year of the lesser evil. Some such counsel has been repeated over and again to Sanders-affected Democrats and Trump-averse Republicans.
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What the Jesuits will be talking about when they elect their new leader
In contrast to political elections built on the logic of competition, Jesuits don’t “run for an office.”
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Online, we encounter suffering from afar: how do we respond?
The internet has profoundly changed the social and moral space of everyday life.