Restoring Internal Harmony
Viktor Frankl From all indications, more and more Americans are experiencing disillusionment, despair, and even suicidal thoughts over [...]
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12, 2022
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12, 2022
Pope Francis Offers Guidance
On November 22 five staff from America Magazine, two Jesuits and three laypeople, interviewed Pope Francis on topics ranging from [...]
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11, 2022
The Gift of Truth
We humans are wonderful creatures, yet we have significant limitations. We can be either in this location or that one, [...]
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11, 2022
Catholic Bishops and Leadership
A recent study revealed that half the diocesan priests in the U.S. are experiencing significant burnout. The researchers found that [...]
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11, 2022
Reconsidering Trump
The word sanctimonious means “making a hypocritical show of religious devotion, piety, righteousness.” Its synonyms include phony, insincere, deceitful, fake. [...]
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11, 2022
What Would Satan Do?
I know, I know . . . Modern “with-it” people don’t believe that Satan exists, let alone has any influence [...]
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10, 2022
How to Contribute to Social Harmony
The great majority of Americans agree that overcoming the division among us is imperative. We have to learn to speak [...]
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10, 2022
Seeing Our Human Nature More Clearly
Rodin's The Thinker The Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) wrote the following verse, expressed here in English prose: “O, [...]
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09, 2022
Jesuits’ View on Immigration Morality
At the end of the summer of 2022, Governors Abbott of Texas and DeSantis of Florida transported migrants to New [...]
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09, 2022
The Whatever School of Morality, Part 2
Part 1 of this essay explained that WhateverMorality is the belief that good and evil, right and wrong, are whatever [...]