Fr Ronald Rolheiser
Displaced people take shelter inside a school in Sidon, Lebanon, March 11, 2026, following an escalation
between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S. and Israel-Iran war. Photo: OSV News/Aziz Taher, Reuters. Theodore Roethke begins his poem ‘In a Dark Time’, with these words: “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” We live in a dark time, one beset with hatred, bitter divisions, and wars that, daily, are bringing death and incalculable trauma to millions of people. But are our eyes beginning to see? Sometimes…
