by Ron Rolheiser | Feb 6, 2019 | Opinion
Everything is of one piece. Whenever we don’t take that seriously, we pay a price. The renowned theologian, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, gives an example of this. Beauty, he submits, is not some little “extra” that we can value or denigrate according to personal taste and...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 19, 2018 | Opinion
Our natural instincts serve us well, to a point. They’re self-protective and that’s healthy too, to a point. Let me explain. Recently, I was at a football game with a number of friends. We arrived at the game in two cars and parked in the stadium’s underground parking...
by Ron Rolheiser | Nov 13, 2018 | Opinion
Recently, I attended a symposium where the keynote speaker was a man exactly my age. Because we had both lived through the same cultural and religious changes in our lives, I resonated with much of what he said and with how he felt about things. And in his assessment...
by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 28, 2018 | Opinion
“Besides all this, between you and us a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who might want to pass from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.” Abraham speaks these words to a soul in hell in the famous parable of the Rich Man and...
by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 7, 2018 | Opinion
“Sometimes all you can do is to put your mouth to the dust and wait.” That’s a counsel from the Book of Lamentations and, while perhaps not the best response to the recent revelations of clerical sexual abuse and cover-up in the Roman Catholic Church, it seems the...
