“I wasn’t raised religious and I don’t know anything about religion,” he said in 2004.
Spirituality
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Spy Wednesday: Who was Judas and why did he do it?
Saints and theologians, not to mention authors and poets, have long debated this thorny question: Why did Judas do it? To answer that we need to know something about the man himself.
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Who was St. John of the Cross?
There are so many mistaken notions about St. John of the Cross (1542-91) that we might do well to clarify some of them.
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How Consumerism is Destroying Christmas
We might think the battle for Christmas is over words. But the struggle is waged at a far deeper level of our lives.
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Into the High Country
The days were lengthening. Daylight itself seemed brighter. The sap was rising in the trees, and with it I felt the wanderlust rising in me.
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Lourdes Diary: Seven days at Massabieille: Part Two
‘Even before dawn, there is a Mass being celebrated, and pilgrims are already here, kneeling before the space, running their hands over the rock, praying the Rosary and hoping for healing, as they have been doing since 1858.’
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Father James Martin’s Lourdes diary
Something you don’t hear every day from a Jesuit: I’m here to pick up a cassock for my trip to Lourdes.
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Catholics love to discuss doctrine and the church. Why are they shy about Jesus?
Catholic students are quick to talk about their experience of church—but what about their experience of Christ?
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Remembering the Christmas traditions of my family and the Holy Family
When I think about the Holy Family I remember other holy families as well, the ones who brought me up in the faith, who showed me how to love and who taught me how to celebrate Christmas.
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Of many things: Longing for nature
When I returned last fall to New York City after 30 years away, what demanded the most adjustment for me was the absence of light. “Welcome to New York,” I was told. The deprivation of daylight is one of the things New York apartment-dwellers have to endure.