Most of us worry about aging, especially in how it affects our bodies. We worry about wrinkles, bags under our eyes, middle-age fat and losing hair where we want it only to find it on places where we don’t want it. So every now and then, when we look in a mirror or see a…

Normally none of us like feeling sad, heavy, or depressed. Generally we prefer sunshine to darkness, light-heartedness to melancholy. That’s why, most of the time, we do everything we can to distract ourselves from melancholy, to keep heaviness and sadness at bay. We tend to run from those feelings inside us that sadden or frighten…

Christian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, was fond of sharing this story. He had a very close Muslim friend, Mohammed and the two of them used to pray together, even as they remained aware of their differences, as Muslim and Christian. Aware, too, that certain schools of thought,…

We can never be challenged too strongly with regards to being committed to social justice. A key, non-negotiable summons that comes from Jesus himself is precisely the challenge to reach out to the poor, to the excluded and to those whom society deems expendable. Therefore, the huge, global issues of justice should preoccupy us. Can…

There is no hell that Christ cannot penetrate, no locked door he cannot go through, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

‘Christmas is about the monumental challenge to reform our lives’, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

‘Without recognising that the other too is carrying the divine, we will… be unable to truly release our own Magnificat’ writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

Greatness is somewhat of an intangible writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

‘The Eucharist is a far-reaching mystery with multiple depths and levels of meaning’ writes Fr Ron Rolhesier