Year: 2010

Sunday Social Hour

This week saw a return to normal activity on Facebook, so whatever bug was happening last week seems to be resolved. Twitter, on the other hand, was on the quiet side other than for a couple dozen retweets, which we’re grateful for. Which service do you prefer? Have you checked out Google Buzz yet? We’re curious, so let us know.

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Review: The Sacred Made Real

Much of the zeal within the Church has always come from within the Iberian peninsula beginning with Saint Vincent of Zaragoza and continuing into the mediaeval period with Saint Dominic and, in the sixteenth century, the founders of the Jesuits and the new reformed orders; Francis Xavier, Ignatius Loyola, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.

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Stop for a while

Each succeeding year, Lent calls each of us to renew our ongoing commitment to the implications of the Resurrection in our own lives, here and now. But that demands both the healing of the soul and the honing of the soul, both penance and faith, both a purging of what is superfluous in our lives and the heightening, the intensifying, of what is meaningful.

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The next lost generation? Maybe not.

Over the past few years there’s been some serious hand-wringing about the challenges that the youth of today will be facing as they move through adulthood. To some the challenges seem too great to be overcome. But not to young people.

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Report from Uganda

The outside voices that have fanned the flames of homophobia in the country have created a volatile situation that might erupt in violence with the passage of the proposed anti-gay legislation.

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