Can You “Believe” in Both Faith and Science?
During my time as a priest among the indigenous people of a remote area of Bolivia, I often thought that one of my jobs was trying to undo the spiritual ...
The Cost of Discipleship
The famous theologian and Lutheran pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, had a lot of time on his hands as he sat in a Nazi prison in 1943. Before prison, he was a ...
The Borders of Our Hearts
I’m a weekly volunteer at a social services agency, where my duties include interpreting from Spanish to English, and vice versa, for recent immigrants. If they qualify financially and otherwise, ...
Neither Spiritual nor Religious?
One of the most solemn and ancient rituals of the Catholic Church is the Easter Vigil. As the name implies, it is held on the Saturday evening before Easter and ...
The Value of Doubt
I recently watched “Freud’s Last Session” on Netflix, a movie set in England at the start of WW2. It stars Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, the famous pioneer in psychoanalysis ...
Does Faith Make You Happy?
Mother Teresa, the Nobel prize-winning nun who dedicated her life to serving the poorest and sickest in India, always appeared to be cheerful and joyous. But her letters, collected and ...