Father Ron Rolheiser

Imagine a young couple intoxicated with each other in the early stages of love.

Ten years before his death in 1996, Henri Nouwen was beset by a depression that nearly broke him.

Why do sincere people so often find themselves at odds with each other?  The issue here is not about when sincerity meets insincerity or plain old sin.

​​​​​​​The world will be saved by beauty!  Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that, Dorothy Day quoted it, and centuries before Jesus, Confucius made it central to his pedagogy.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was once asked by a critic: “What are you trying to do? Why all this talk about atoms and molecules when you are speaking about Jesus Christ?”