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Some personal mini-creeds
Thursday, 15 September 2011 10:53
We are all familiar with the Nicene and the Apostles' Creeds, the two great faith-summaries that anchor our faith. Without them, eventually we would drift off the path and lose our way. Creeds anchor us.
Remembering ‘the little chapel that stood’ near ground zero
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 14:50
Towers fell with a rush and they fell with a roar. The sky was blank where they'd been before. And more was lost than who can say. It was our hearts came down that day.—A.B. Curtis, “The Little Chapel That Stood”
Still no easy answers to the hard questions
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 14:45
On the morning of 9/11, I was about to hop in the shower when the phone rang and my husband told me it was one of the editors calling from The Chicago Sun-Times."How quickly can you get down here," he asked.
"I dunno, an hour, maybe," I said. "Why? What's up?"
How far we've come, how far we've yet to go
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 14:41
A fascinating exchange recently took place in the pages of the Vatican's newspaper between the chief rabbi of Rome and the Vatican's chief representative to the Jewish people. Their conversation reflected just how far we've come in Christian-Jewish relations — but also how far we have yet to go.‘Pray, pay and obey’ no more: Renewal of the lay vocation
Tuesday, 06 September 2011 14:34
I grew up the oldest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family. We certainly did our share to fill the pews on Sunday, but my participation in the Church was largely perfunctory well into my adulthood. This state of affairs reflected a certain spiritual immaturity, to be sure, but it also stemmed from Church culture at the time, when many of us assumed it was enough to “pray, pay and obey.”
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