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King Herod and the wise men: A Christmas challenge

Friday, 21 December 2012 00:00

The Christmas story is surely one of the greatest stories ever told. It chronicles a birth from which the world records time as before or after. Moreover, it is written in a way that has inflamed the romantic imagination for 2,000 years.

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Marking an anniversary

Friday, 14 December 2012 00:00

In late November, 1982, while a graduate student in Louvain, Belgium, I began writing this column. That makes for 30 years!

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Honoring life's complexity

Friday, 07 December 2012 00:00

In a lecture recently, I made the point that Jesus shocked people equally in both his capacity to thoroughly enjoy his life and in his capacity to renounce it and give it up.

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Working too hard: It begins as virtue and ends in escape

Friday, 30 November 2012 00:00

There are dangers in overwork, no matter how good the work and no matter how noble its motivation. Spiritual guides, beginning with Jesus, have always warned of the dangers of becoming too taken-up in our work. Many are the spouses in a marriage, many are the children in a family, many are the friends, and many are churches who wish that someone they love and need more attention from was less busy.

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Sexuality: Its power and purpose

Friday, 16 November 2012 00:00

We are all powerfully, incurably and wonderfully sexed; this is part of a conspiracy between God and nature. Sexuality lies right next to our instinct for breathing and it is ever-present in our lives.

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Papal intentions for May: That administrators of justice may act always with integrity and right conscience; That seminaries, especially those of mission churches, may form pastors after the Heart of Christ, fully dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel.