by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 19, 2017 | Opinion
I don’t always find it easy to pray. Often I’m overtired, distracted, caught up in tasks, pressured by work, short on time, lacking the appetite for prayer or more strongly drawn to do something else. But I do pray daily, despite the fact that I often...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 18, 2017 | Opinion
Charity is about being good-hearted, but justice is about something more. Individual sympathy is good and virtuous, but it doesn’t necessarily change the social, economic and political structures that unfairly victimize some people and unduly privilege others....
by Ron Rolheiser | Jun 13, 2017 | Opinion
When Friedrich Nietzsche declared that “God is dead,” he added this question: “What kind of a sponge does it take to wipe away a whole horizon?” I often ask that question because just in my own lifetime there has been an unprecedented decline...
by Ron Rolheiser | May 22, 2017 | Opinion
Dorothy Day is alleged to have said, “Don’t call me a saint; I don’t want to be dismissed that easily!” A new biography on her by her granddaughter, Kate Hennessy, “Dorothy Day – The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate...
by Ron Rolheiser | May 4, 2017 | Opinion
The heart has its reasons, says Pascal, and sometimes those reasons have a long history. Recently I signed a card for a friend, a devout Baptist, who was raised to have a suspicion of Roman Catholics. It’s something he still struggles with, but don’t we...
