The political-economic reasons why Africa’s future will have significance for developments in the United States, and some moral-religious reasons why people in U.S. should consider Africa’s future to be of significance to ...

This retreat was given at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House near Lake Elmo, Minnesota, April, 2010.|Fr. Jim Kubicki entered the Jesuits in 1971 and was ordained in 1983. He gave his first preached retreat in 1986. ...

PRE-PRAYERING|My father would end discussions, (we were not allowed arguments), with this picturesque thought, "When I get done, you'll be singing a different tune." We were not aware that we had been singing any tune, but ...

A PONDERING||The closest we get to true freedom is trusting God and that is the closest we get to doing or living God's "will". Having trust in something or especially somebody is a quite selfless act. Trusting can be the ...

Christmas, despite the distracting consumerist orgies preceding the weeks before the feast, is for most of us a joyful event that we celebrate within our faith communities and share with family and friends. After all, it ...

Today's reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians made me somehow feeling uneasy. I have no problems with the first part, when Paul encourages children to listen to and follow the instructions of their parents ...

Recently, my husband and I visited our daughter and son-in-law and our grandson, Henry who celebrated his second birthday. It was wonderful to watch Henry delight in everything that was going on around him, as he tried to ...

As the days grow shorter in the northern hemisphere and visions of winter begin to enter our consciousness, we watch the late autumn colors fade, we watch fields being cleared, we watch geese, southward bound, cross our ...

Today's scripture readings seem to speak of our desire for God, of humility and hope. In Philippians, Paul proclaims his desire to serve the people of Philippi and his contrasting desire "to depart this life and be with ...

Readings like today's Gospel are always among my favorites. In Jesus' time, slavish devotion to the letter of complicated Jewish laws regarding the Sabbath, eating, drinking and a myriad of other activities were markers ...