Mary Magdalene, Visionary
Mark Etling, PhD
July 4, 2025
The Gospel of Mary is one of many Scriptures that was not accepted by the Church for inclusion in the New Testament.
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What Do We Do With This Great Love?
Murray Bodo, OFM
February 14, 2020
Francis's own song defined love for him. It was to live and be in God’s most holy will. And Francis has learned from Christ’s own words in the Gospels what God’s will is for those who love him. They are to ...
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A Grand Humility
Murray Bodo, OFM
February 10, 2020
In these “Praises of the Lord God Most High” are contained Francis’s experience of God. This is who this God he has loved late and long has become for him. These praises say, “O God, this is your song, you ...
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Healing Past Hurts
Richard Rohr, OFM
January 22, 2020
To keep our bodies less defended, to live in our body right now, to be present to others in a cellular way, is also the work of healing of past hurts and the many memories that seem to store themselves ...
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God Speaks in Many Languages
Joan Chittister, OSB
January 21, 2020
Exclusion in the name of God is the very worst of religious sins. God speaks in many tongues and to every color and age of people. It is not ours to decide where God’s favor lies. But it is ours ...
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The Spiritual Problem of Our Time
Joan Chittister, OSB
January 20, 2020
The great spiritual problem of the day is being “like fish out of water.” A life without spiritual regularity drifts through time with little to really hang onto when life most needs an anchor. Instead, we often get caught up ...
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It's Not about Perfection
Joan Chittister, OSB
January 18, 2020
Perfection is not what being human is about. Perfection is simply not attainable in the human condition. The function of being human is to become the best human beings we can be, one insight, one mistake, at a time. Then, ...
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