Jul 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Several years ago, the superior of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Rome asked Fr. Ronald Rolheiser to compile a list of the major spiritual questions bubbling in the Catholic world, based on his experience as a writer and speaker. At NCR’s request,...
Jul 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Tangled We found the finch, eyes clear but wings limp as string, its spindly feet twisted in wire. Untangling toes, you were quick to stroke ruffed feathers; then you hung back: the small body fluttered to the oak. You wear your fatigue like...
Jul 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
What’s Beneath The Surface If you were someday to rise out of the foaming waters of the sea to count the stones and broken shells of my heart, If you were to listen there and to separate the gull’s cry from the sucking sounds of stones beneath inhaling waves,...
Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
A Parableby an Orthodox Christian priest who has just returned from an ecumenicalgathering of largely Evangelical clergy. Once there was a starving man who found a field of potatoes, and finding the potatoes, he found life. Potatoes alone were enough to...
Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations to the Annual Nicean Club Dinner (Lambeth Palace, 9 September 2010) Your Grace, ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, At the outset, I...
Jun 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being. Kafka’s Diaries In the year he died, the Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton, published an essay addressed to...
