Faith Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:16:27 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Canadian nun, sexologist: Catholics must increase their sexual maturity /item/29272-canadian-nun-sexologist-catholics-must-increase-their-sexual-maturity /item/29272-canadian-nun-sexologist-catholics-must-increase-their-sexual-maturity

QUEBEC CITY - A Canadian nun with a Ph.D. in clinical sexology said the sex abuse crisis in the church does not mean "the end of faith" but rather "the end of a lack of formation and the end of deviance," and a call to return to Jesus' message of love.

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Canada Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:10:36 -0400
Learn from the past before looking to future, Pope tells youth /faith/item/27684-learn-from-the-past-before-looking-to-future-pope-tells-youth /faith/item/27684-learn-from-the-past-before-looking-to-future-pope-tells-youth VATICAN – The future cannot be understood without reflecting on the past and on the history and traditions passed on to young people from parents and grandparents, Pope Francis said.
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cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Faith Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:52:29 -0400
ThereƵapp honest sin and dishonest sin /faith/columnists/item/24489-there-s-honest-sin-and-dishonest-sin /faith/columnists/item/24489-there-s-honest-sin-and-dishonest-sin

ThereƵapp an axiom which says: Nothing feels better than virtue.

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frronrolheiser@catholicregister.org (Fr. Ron Rolheiser) Fr. Ron Rolheiser Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:17:01 -0500
Community is formed through love, inclusion /faith/columnists/item/22312-community-is-formed-through-love-inclusion /faith/columnists/item/22312-community-is-formed-through-love-inclusion

In a recent article in America magazine, Grant Kaplan, commenting on the challenge of the Resurrection, makes this comment: “Unlike previous communities in which the bond among members forges itself through those it excludes and scapegoats, the gratuity of the Resurrection allows for a community shaped by forgiven-forgivers.”

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frronrolheiser@catholicregister.org (Fr. Ron Rolheiser) Fr. Ron Rolheiser Thu, 12 May 2016 15:41:57 -0400
Fearing our own maturity /faith/columnists/item/18804-fearing-our-own-maturity /faith/columnists/item/18804-fearing-our-own-maturity

Our bodies and our souls each have their separate aging process, and they aren’t always in harmony. Thus, T.E. Laurence, in The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, makes this comment about someone: “He feared his maturity as it grew upon him, with its ripe thought and finished art, but which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life ... his rangeful, mortal soul was aging faster than his body, was going to die before it, like most of ours.” 

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frronrolheiser@catholicregister.org (Fr. Ron Rolheiser) Fr. Ron Rolheiser Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:00:00 -0400