A victim who helped me to forgive
Last year was tough for the Movement. I can hardly believe that only two and a half years have passed since we first received the news about Fr. Maciel. So much has happened in such a short time: so...
View ArticleCaravaggio, painter of light
Supper at Emmaus, Caravaggio, 1606 This past week, I attended a series of lectures on the life and art of Caravaggio, given by Dr. Francesco Buranelli, Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for the...
View ArticleIn search of endless fun
I was stunned and unbelieving the first time I saw it in Kentucky: twenty cars on a Friday night slowly circling around a McDonald’s restaurant. At first I thought McDonald’s must have beendoing good...
View ArticleA prayer for peace
When I tell my fellow Americans that I live in Monterrey, Mexico, their first question is often, “And are things okay there?” The drug-related violence in Monterrey and in the state of Nuevo León has...
View ArticleCharism and founder Part 1: The paradox
``A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality should be like.'' -- Richard Feynman It’s not easy finding people who like reading the...
View ArticleCharism and founder, Part 2: Grace
There is something about grace that makes it strangely un-American. In our egalitarian, self-governing society, built on the shoulders of hard-working individuals and “justice for all”, there’s...
View ArticleCharism and Founder, PART THREE: CHARISM
Downtown San Diego, California, the early 1990’s. Sister Jean handed me another stack of envelopes. I happily stuck the stamps onto them and passed them to another volunteer who was filling them with...
View ArticleCharism and Founder, PART FOUR: The Founder
If a stranger had to walk into the Centro de Formación of Monterrey, where I have lived for the past five years, and guess what religious order it belonged to, he might have a hard time. I say “might”,...
View ArticleA work before dying
Hidden in a niche in Rome’s Basilica of Saint Sebastian is a little-known Bernini treasure: his “Salvator Mundi,” or Saviour of the World. I rather happened upon it by accident, popping into a cool...
View Article“Remade in his image”
There is a scene from the film “The Passion of the Christ” that often comes back to my memory during Holy Week: Mary, seeing Jesus crushed under the weight of the cross, hastens to comfort him, and he...
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