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,
What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but suffer the loss of your own soul?
Our overestimated grandiosity
By Fr. Ron RolheiserThere are now more than seven billion people on this Earth and each one of us feels that he or she is the centre of the universe. That accounts for most of the problems we have in the world, in our neighbourhoods, in our families.
So much beyond our imagination
By Fr. Ron RolheiserRecently, at an academic dinner, I was sitting across the table from a nuclear scientist. At one point, I asked him this question: 鈥淒o you believe that there鱿鱼视频app human life on other planets?鈥� His answer surprised me: 鈥淎s a scientist, no, I don鈥檛 believe there鱿鱼视频app human life on another planet. Scientifically, the odds are strongly against it. But, as a Christian, I believe there鱿鱼视频app human life on other planets. Why? My logic is this: Why would God choose to have only one child?鈥�
We see in Jesus鈥� eyes, God is good
By Fr. Ron RolheiserGod, as I understand Him, is not very well understood. A colleague of mine, now deceased, was fond of saying that. It鱿鱼视频app a wise comment.
Dorothy Day 鈥� a saint for our time
By Fr. Ron RolheiserSome time soon we will witness the canonization of Dorothy Day. For many people, especially those who are not Roman Catholic, a canonization draws little more than a yawn. How does a canonization impact our world? Moreover, isn鈥檛 canonization simply the recognition of a certain piety to which most people cannot relate? So why should there be much interest around the canonization of Dorothy Day 鈥� who in fact protested that she didn鈥檛 want people to consider her a saint and asserted that making someone a saint often helps neutralize his or her influence?
Human nature: is it somehow all wrong?
By Fr. Ron RolheiserAn American humorist was once asked what he loved most in life. This was his reply: I love women best; whisky next; my neighbour a little; and God hardly at all!
Sometimes, political correctness is simply correct
By Fr. Ron RolheiserJust because something is politically correct doesn鈥檛 mean that it might not also be correct. Sometimes we have to swallow hard to accept truth.
A eucharistic prayer over an awakening world
By Fr. Ron RolheiserWe too are covenanted to say Mass for the world
The healing place that is silence
By Fr. Ron RolheiserA recent book by Robyn Cadwallander, The Anchoress, tells the story of a young woman, Sarah, who chooses to shut herself off from the world and lives as an Anchoress (like Julian of Norwich). It鱿鱼视频app not an easy life and she soon finds herself struggling with her choice. Her confessor is a young, inexperienced monk named Fr. Ranaulf. Their relationship isn鈥檛 easy. Ranaulf is a shy man, of few words, and so Sarah is often frustrated with him, wanting him to say more, to be more empathic and simply to be more present to her. They often argue, or, at least, Sarah tries to coax more words and sympathy out of Ranaulf. But whenever she does this he cuts short the visit and leaves.
Healing through positive growth in our hearts
By Fr. Ron RolheiserAll of us live with some wounds, bad habits, addictions and temperamental flaws that are so deeply engrained and long-standing that it seems like they are part of our genetic make-up. And so we tend to give into a certain quiet despair in terms of ever being healed of them.
Jesus is the humblest of foot soldiers
By Fr. Ron RolheiserSeveral years ago, the movie Argo won the Academy Award as best movie of the year. I enjoyed the movie in that it was a good drama, one that held its audience in proper suspense even as it provided some good humour and banter on the side. But I struggled with several aspects of the film.