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6 Media Ministries to Nourish Your Soul

Amid growing calls for meaningful digital resources, these media ministries are responding daily with content that feeds the soul.
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Man praying | Photo by Ric Rodrigues

How Can Anyone Pray ‘Always’?

Prayer is saying “yes” to the paschal mystery at work in all things.
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Richard Rohr on Sacred Violence

Both René Girard and Gil Bailie have taught us that the most effective and common way to turn social hatred into social harmony is via a scapegoat.
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Tree with stars at night

Advent: Waiting in Darkness

Darkness is powerless to the light, as this theologian explains.
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hands clasped together in prayer

How Can Anyone Pray ‘Always’?

Over the centuries, the word prayer has been distorted and trivialized.
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Pope Francis walks with Argentine Rabbi Abraham Skorka, left, and Omar Abboud, a Muslim leader from Argentina, as he leaves after praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in this May 26, 2014, file photo. In his official proclamation of the Holy Year of Mercy, Pope Francis called for "fervent dialogue" between Christians, Muslims and Jews. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Owning Our Cultural Biases

We’re living in a time when the far right and the far left in almost every institution are using the eccentricities and evils of the other end to justify their own extremes.
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