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The phrase is from the Jesuit priest Teilhard de Chardin. Willy-nilly, we live in the Divine Milieu. Spirit is the power behind everything we see. "The Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof." In an article in NOTRE DAME MAGAZINE, Lawrence Cunnihgham writes of "the opening of the self to...

SUFI: The Immediacy of God Karen Armstrong points out that the Kingdom of God "is not an experience for the elite or for monks only; the kingdom announced by Christ in the Gospels is a union with God that everybody can experience here and now, without having to wait until the next...

THE PATH The original disciples of Jesus did not call themselves Christians, but followers of the Way, or the Path. (Greek, hodos). After Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus in Mark 10:52, he tells him, "’Go. Your trust (or belief) has saved you.’ And Bartimaeus followed...

"The disciples said to Jesus, 'We know you are going to leave us. Who will be our leader? "Jesus said to them, 'No matter where you are, your are to go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being." It is unlikely that this passage from the Gospel of Thomas...

SPIRIT: The Added Dimension We're told that we're composed of a body and a soul. Then we wonder if the soul is immortal. In personal terms, this becomes, "Will I live forever?" Maybe we're selling ourselves short. That may be the wrong question, wrong because it frames the...

SPIRIT: The Added Dimension We're told that we're composed of a body and a soul. Then we wonder if the soul is immortal. In personal terms, this becomes, "Will I live forever?" Maybe we're selling ourselves short. That may be the wrong question, wrong because it...

The Uniqueness of Jesus I maintain that the Jesus depicted in the Synoptic gospels is a sharply etched personality, and is unlikely to be some imagined amalgam of existing deities or myths, tho there are certainly mythic elements in the accounts. One reason I am a (sometimes) fan...

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO DEBBIE by PAUL RUDNICK Issue of 2004-03-08 Posted 2004-03-08 Recent works like “The Passion of the Christ” and “The Da Vinci Code” seek to illuminate the life of Jesus. Not long ago, an additional text was discovered in an ancient linen backpack...

It seems pretty clear--to me, at least--that John meant Rome. Following is a glib, not-to-be-taken-too-seriously, excursion on this subject: Rome Has anyone wondered why the supposed center of Christianity, from the fourth century to the sixteenth, has been in Rome, of all places...