The real Church is ‘a place of conscience and spirit inside a person’, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

The drop-off in church attendance is very much our own fault, writes Fr Ron Rolheiser

Christ teaches us how to ‘triumph over all the powers that oppose God’

Understanding what it takes to be a true disciple of Jesus

All of us struggle, and we struggle in three ways. First, sometimes we struggle simply to maintain ourselves, to stay healthy and stable, to stay normal, not to fall apart, not to have our lives unravel into chaos and depression. It takes real effort just to maintain our ordinary health, stability and happiness. But, even…

Ancient Greece expressed much of its psychological and spiritual wisdom in its myths. The Greeks didn’t intend these to be taken literally or as historical, but as metaphor and as an archetypal illustration of why life is as it is and how people engage life both generatively and destructively. Many of these myths are centred…

Our need to cut down someone else is an infallible sign of our own jealousy and bad self-image

The Bible gives us sacred permission to feel the way we feel sometimes

I was forever longing to be more connected to life

Anthropologists tell us that a frustrated desire to be blessed by our own fathers, is one of the deepest hungers in the world today