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    I should probably cut myself a break. After all, it has only been six weeks since I moved to Baltimore (aka Charm City and legitimately so). Within days of arrival, I had boxes unpacked, books on the shelves and...
    Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark.  When we try to change we simply thrash about: we improvise, guess, forget our results or change the conditions without even noticing...
    The physicist Stephen Hawking has published a new book, The Grand Design, in which he confidently asserts that the universe created itself--no gods required, as he writes in The Wall Street Journal.  Robert Spitzer, SJ, thinks this is a...
    One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina.  Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with a powerful conscience and a strong thirst for truth.  He abandons the Orthodox Christianity...
    Could you live your everyday life in just six pieces of clothing?  It is the question behind a website called "Six Items or Less." In the trans-Atlantic experiment, people around the world volunteered to choose six items...
    Since I no longer believe in coincidence, I'm wondering what God is inviting me to see, not only in the sudden spate of movies glorifying food, but because this morning's kitchen adventure soon became an especially contemplative exercise. I've been...
    Fellow blogger Tim Muldoon (see his post on desire below) has written an excellent article about what's needed to help young people form the intimate bond that sustains marriage.  Dating is passe.  The hookup culture is the norm.  Young...
    With the feast day of Saint Augustine coming up later this week (August 28) I have been thinking about his (likely) influence on Saint Ignatius—specifically, Augustine's writing about desire in his autobiographical Confessions. One of his most insightful comments comes...
    Something to think about | In what I believe to be the best, most succinct description of how to live a life attuned to God's presence, Ignatius counseled his young novices to do the following. First, bring focus to...
    Many people suffer episodes of depression. Ignatius Loyola was one of them, according to Joseph Munitiz, SJ, and we would do well to study how he recovered. Ignatius's bad time came at Manresa, not long after his conversion, when he...

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