Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
James Martin, S.J.October 14, 2008

See how David van Biema at Time (and a few others) answer that question, something that a lot of people are asking in these parlous financial times.  Maybe the psalms can help you more than you think with your worries about mortgage-backed securities and your retirement plans.

James Martin, SJ

Comments are automatically closed two weeks after an article's initial publication. See our comments policy for more.
16 years 6 months ago
I went on a retreat to a monastery perched high on a mountain above the Pacific, the steep slant of the hillocky land ending in the great pastel muddle of sky and sea. Some days it was impossible to find the horizon, the air and water had conspired so successfully to confuse themselves. The days began before dawn with lauds in the chapel. Every day was silent except for our mouthing the psalmist's ancient passions, his cries for mercy, his rebukes and terrors, his lyric tendernesses. Such moodiness at the heart of Western religion! ~ Patricia Hampl http://www.contemplation.com/

The latest from america

The influence of the Synod on Synodality for the conclave—and what the result of the conclave might mean for the future of synodality
Inside the VaticanMay 03, 2025
The role of the pope is in a process of conversion from worldly monarch to world’s priest.
Zac DavisMay 03, 2025
At the Synod on Synodality, the cardinals were ‘converted’ to working together in a new way. As they join their brothers in the conclave, they face a referendum on—and resistance to—their work.
Colleen DulleMay 03, 2025
“In a time when the globalized economic and political order is crumbling—especially exposed during the Trump era—the church may well be one of the last stubborn institutions that still holds a truly global character.”
Gerard O’ConnellMay 03, 2025