Searchers is streaming from the AFI Docs Film Festival. For a ticket go here. Modern apps have become our all-purpose tools for navigating, manipulating information, and trying to understand the complicated world we live in. We use Google as a library that gives us access to all the information and possessions we crave. We indulge … Read more
The mystery of the Incarnation overcomes the problem of distance. Without the Incarnation, without the full Incarnation of God’s Word, God will never be more than an abstraction. One cannot come close to an abstraction. You cannot experience intimacy with an idea. But through the Incarnation we can fall in love with a person and … Read more
Author Barbara Lee’s new book, Answering God’s Call: A Scripture-Based Journey for Older Adults, focuses on listening to God’s call in the later years of life. Barbara says, “All of the people mentioned in this book are examples of God-centered responses to the challenges older adults face in our time.” Barbara spoke to Mary McGinnity … Read more
I recently started watching a television program about passengers on an airplane who unknowingly disappear in flight for five years. While they believe only a few minutes have passed, their friends and families have been without them for five years. (It’s a bizarre series, but I think it’s my escape from the gravity of local … Read more
In St. Ignatius’ second rules of judgment – the rules relating to more subtle judgment, what we might call advanced judgment – he addresses in rules 5 and 6 how we can respond to our own thought processes. Ignatius’ experience Ignatius had experience with it. During his many months in Manresa, he was plagued with … Read more
One of my earliest childhood memories is that I was around two or three years old and walking down a Florida beach with my parents. My father showed me a starfish that had washed up on the beach. He explained to me that if he lost one of his arms, it could regenerate over time. … Read more