Ronald Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the , is president of the in San Antonio, Texas.
He is a community-builder, lecturer and writer. are popular throughout the English-speaking world and his weekly column is carried by more than seventy newspapers worldwide.
Fr. Rolheiser can be reached at his website,
Believers and non-believers alike have been arguing about the Resurrection since the day Jesus rose.
Look deep to discover the good in Good Friday
By Fr. Ron RolheiserGood Friday was bad long before it was good, at least from outward appearances.
Death can be our final gift to others
By Fr. Ron RolheiserFr. Ron Rolheiser will be a leader at the 2017 National Catholic Mission, addressing the theme 鈥淥ur final gift,鈥� based on Fr. Henri Nouwen鱿鱼视频app thesis that death can be our final gift to others. Fr. Rolheiser addressed that concept in a 2001 column reprinted here with his blessing.
Searching for light within our shadow
By Fr. Ron RolheiserWhat is meant when certain schools of psychology warn us about our 鈥渟hadow鈥�? What鱿鱼视频app our shadow?
God鱿鱼视频app love has the power to give new life
By Fr. Scott Lewis, S.JFifth Sunday of Lent, April 2 (Year A) Ezekiel 37:12-14; Psalm 130; Romans 8:8-11; John 11:1-45
How can someone be dead and living at the same time?
Nothing is ever really ours to keep
By Fr. Ron RolheiserEverything is gift. That鱿鱼视频app a principle that ultimately undergirds all spirituality, all morality and every commandment.
God鱿鱼视频app sacred energy powers our lives
By Fr. Ron RolheiserAll things considered, I believe that I grew up with a relatively healthy concept of God.
There鱿鱼视频app honest sin and dishonest sin
By Fr. Ron RolheiserThere鱿鱼视频app an axiom which says: Nothing feels better than virtue.
We all lose when it鱿鱼视频app only about winning
By Fr. Ron RolheiserOur society tends to divide us into winners and losers. Sadly, we don鈥檛 often reflect on how this affects our relationships with each other, nor on what it means for us as Christians.
It is our duty to welcome the stranger
By Fr. Ron RolheiserIn the Hebrew Scriptures, that part of the Bible we call the Old Testament, we find a strong religious challenge to always welcome the stranger, the foreigner.
Forgiveness can conquer bitterness
By Fr. Ron RolheiserOne of the dangers inherent in trying to live out a life of Christian fidelity is that we are prone to become embittered moralizers, older brothers of the prodigal son, angry and jealous at God鱿鱼视频app over-generous mercy, bitter because persons who wander and stray can so easily access the heavenly banquet table.