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U2, Religion and Spirituality

I am heading to see U2 this weekend in Chicago with my wife (the kids are spending time with the grandparents :-).  I have always liked U2’s music but it was not until the last five or so years when … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, Solemnity of Christ the King of the Universe (November 23, 2014): Teilhard de Chardin’s Universal Christic Vision

  This Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King of the Universe and the last Sunday in Ordinary Time. You can find the readings here. I wrote last year about some of the background of this great feast, which … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (September 28, 2014): Kenosis in an Evolutionary World

Have in you the same attitude that is also in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human … Continue reading

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Stacy Trasancos on God and the Mystery of the Big Bang

Earlier this week author and scientist Dr. Stacy Trasancos wrote an excellent article on how studying the unique properties that exist in our universe from the Big Bang to today can give insights into the mind of God.  I encourage you … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection, Solemnity of Christ the King of the Universe (November 24, 2013): Teilhard de Chardin’s Universal Christic Vision

“Our individual mystical effort awaits an essential completion in its union with the mystical effort of all other men. The divine milieu which will ultimately be one in the Pleroma, must begin to become one during the earthly phase of … Continue reading

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Teilhard de Chardin Quote of the Week (August 12, 2013): In the beginning . . . )

“In the beginning was Power, intelligent, loving, energizing. In the beginning was the Word, supremely capable of mastering and molding whatever might come into being in the world of matter. In the beginning there were not coldness and darkness; there was Fire. This is the truth. … Continue reading

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Sunday Reflection; 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time (July 14, 2013) (Golden Rule: The Moral Law and the Existence of God)

Today is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time. In today’s readings we have the famous Golden Rule: “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and with all your … Continue reading

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The Way of the Logos

Today’s Gospel reading from John has a very provocative statement by Jesus:  “I AM the Way.  I AM Truth and Life.”  Unfortunately, many people incorrectly interpret this in an exclusivist manner.  As the Irish Jesuits explain: “This is not to … Continue reading

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