by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 29, 2015 | Opinion
I was challenged by a bishop some years ago regarding an article I’d written. We were talking in his office and the tone eventually got a little testy. “How can you write something like that?” he asked. “Because it’s true,” was my...
by Ron Rolheiser | Nov 6, 2015 | Opinion
There is no such a thing as pure objectivity, a view that is free of all bias. Yet that’s the claim often made by nonreligious, secular thinkers in debates about values and public policy. They argue that their views, unlike those who admit that their views are...
by Ron Rolheiser | Oct 12, 2015 | Opinion
Focus on your image because image is everything. Those words, or at least words to that effect, were the caption of a famous ad several years ago. I remember being taken aback by its crass and shallow message, but not many people reacted, perhaps because the caption...
by Ron Rolheiser | Sep 24, 2015 | Opinion
There are now more than 7 billion people on this earth, and each one of us feels that he or she is the center of the universe. That accounts for most of the problems we have in the world, in our neighborhoods and in our families. And no one’s to blame for this,...
by Ron Rolheiser | Aug 25, 2015 | Opinion
Just because something is politically correct doesn’t mean that it might not also be correct. Sometimes we have to swallow hard to accept truth. Some years ago, I served on a priests’ council, an advisory board to the bishop in a Roman Catholic diocese....
