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When They Cry Out to Me, I Will Hear Them

The Torah "Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”...

Caesar’s Coin — the Least of Our Problems

Caesar's coin Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and...

Loving Kindness Is What Matters

This is the fourth and final Sunday on which we can hear and delight in sections of St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians. Last week was surely my own favorite, since we heard his magnificent invitation to honor all that is...

The Yoga of St. Paul (and St. Francis)

Paul in meditation I have been teaching a course on the ...

Reckless Love as a Way of Life

after the vows It was on September 27, 1970 — fifty years ago this Sunday — that I took my first vows as a Jesuit, pronouncing, along with one fellow novice, Daniel G. O’Hare, SJ (currently a professor of medical ethics in NYC who also consults widely...

Six Months Into Our Confinement: Taking Stock, Beginning Anew

Gandhi in prison It is hard to believe that more than six months have passed since Covid 19 began to shut down our ordinary lives, disrupt work and school, and bring sickness and death to so many near and far. We don’t have to...

To Forgive in an Unforgiving World, Reckless Like God

forgiveness This Sunday, September 13, the 24^th in Ordinary Time, we hear again from Matthew 18, and thus...

To Confront, Repent, Forgive: Christian Community in an Unforgiving Society

reconciliation Among the many problems facing Americans today one is often overlooked: we seem to have forgotten how to forgive one another, how to be reconciled in a...

The Cost of Discipleship

The Gospel for the 22^nd Sunday in Ordinary Time follows directly on last Sunday’s Gospel, continuing our reflection on Matthew 16. Indeed, ... Read more about The Cost of Discipleship

The Keys of the Kingdom, for an Imperfect Peter

keys of peter "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter...