Sympathy and empathy come mixed with more-primal instincts

We must be courageous in facing our own chaos

Fr Rolheiser considers Church division and unity

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…

We need to know our real centres, writes Fr Rolheiser

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…

There are good reasons for the rituals with which we surround Christmas

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

We need regular spiritual rituals, writes Fr Ronald Rolheiser