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Faith and Comedy ~ A Life-Line

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When I write and teach and give talks on the spiritual life, I always say I am speaking from my Catholic Christian heritage and perspective, but that I take wisdom anywhere I can get it. Today the wisdom comes from late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert. One Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? No. 2

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 PART 2 of 2 You have to develop your imagination to the point that permits sympathy to happen. You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours or the lives of your loved ones or the lives of your neighbors. You have to have at least enough Read more [...]

What, Goodpeople, Are We to Do? ~ No. 1

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PART 1 of  2 Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants our help. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke What makes loneliness an anguish Is not that I have no one to share my burden, But this: I have only my own burden to bear. ~ Read more [...]

WHEN Will We Ever Learn? A Lament for When Mothers Are Sending Their Children to School with Their Blood Type Pinned to Their Sweaters

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WHEN will we learn the lesson Chief Sealth taught that the earth does not belong to us but we belong to the earth? Kyrie eleison WHEN will we come to know that we are a part of the earth not apart from the earth and understand that—as the Read more [...]