Fr Rolheiser considers Church division and unity
Fr Ronald Rolheiser
The Non-Violence of God
In his deeply insightful book, Violence Unveiled, Gil Bailie takes us through a remarkable section of the diaries of Captain James Cook, the famed British scientist and explorer. Visiting the Island of Tahiti in 1777, Cook was taken one day by a local tribal chief to witness a ritual where a man was sacrificed as…
On the dangers of defining ourselves
We need to know our real centres, writes Fr Rolheiser
My 10 Favourite Books of 2013
De gustibus non est disputandum. That’s a famous line from St Augustine wherein he suggests that taste is subjective and that what one person fancies might not be to another person’s liking. Under that canopy I would like to recommend the following books to you. Among the books that I read in 2013, these 10…
Reasons to celebrate Christmas
There are good reasons for the rituals with which we surround Christmas
Christmas – Chequered origins and chequered sequence
God who wrote the original Christmas with crooked lines also writes the sequence with crooked lines, and some of those lines are our own lives, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser
Staying Awake
We need regular spiritual rituals, writes Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Every tear brings the Messiah closer
Real Love is born through patience, writes Fr Ronald Rolheiser
On mourning and dancing
Henri Nouwen used to publish some of his diaries under the title, On Mourning and Dancing. The title was wholly appropriate since those diaries chronicled much of his own struggle to give public expression to what was bubbling up inside of him and, at the same time, respect a highly sensitive self-consciousness and reticence…
A world of infinite potentialities
”When grace enters, there is no choice — humans must dance.” W.H. Auden wrote those words and, beautiful as they sound, I wish they were true. When grace enters a room we should begin to dance but, sadly, more often than not we let some little thing, some minor mosquito bite, blind us to…