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The WordSecond Sunday of Advent (A), Dec. 9, 2001
Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace till the moon be no more (Ps. 72:7)
Columns
Advent beckons, and still the mourning continues in and around New York. The news brings stories of battlefield successes in Afghanistan and heartening reports of men and women celebrating their liberation from the Taliban. But the war news brings little cheer to many homes in the New York area. The
The WordFirst Sunday of Advent (A), December 2, 2001
“Because of my relatives and friends, I will say ‘Peace be within you!’” (Ps. 122:8)
The WordThirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), November 18, 2001
“By your perseverance you will secure your lives” (Lk. 21:19)
The WordThirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), November 11, 2001
May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ (2 Thes. 3:5)
Faith in Focus
Recently I received a flyer in the mail inviting me to a clergy workshop that promised to help me "cope creatively." It’s being conducted by a friend of mine, a priest of faultless intentions, and will be given by a presenter known nationally as an expert on what the brochure calls &
The WordNativity of St. John the Baptist, June 24, 2001
“No, he will be called John” (Lk. 1:60)
Looking over the shoulder of the police detective at his computer monitor, I felt my stomach churn. He was posing as a 14-year-old girl in a chat room. Within moments, a strange man, age 42, was making a proposition. With so many positive media reports focused on the miracles of the Internet as a co
FaithFaith and Reason
Jacques Dupuis is a Belgian Jesuit who taught theology for over 30 years in India before joining the faculty at the Gregorian University in Rome, where we were colleagues during the last decades of my professorship there. His many years in India gave him the experience of being a member of the Chris
Faith in Focus
A reading from the letter of Paul to... began the lector; but instead of following St. Paul’s epistle, I opened the parish bulletin and read, once again, a mother’s letter of gratitude to her fellow parishioners and the outreach program they support. The woman was not a single mom, but a