Fr Ronald Rolheiser
‘Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well’ by Cornelis Schut, 1650. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public domain. “God has no favourites, except that every one of us is God’s particular favourite,” John Muir once asked, “Why are Christians so reluctant to let animals into their stingy heaven?” The same might be said of us as Churches: why are we so reluctant sometimes to welcome others into God’s mercy and to our communion…
