by Ron Rolheiser | May 16, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
We are all priests from our baptism, and with that comes an invitation, namely, to pray for the world as a priest through the prayer of Christ and the church. What does that mean exactly? Everyone who is baptized as a Christian is baptized into the priesthood of Jesus...
by Ron Rolheiser | Jul 28, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
For too many years, for me, Christ was simply Jesus’ last name: Jack Smith, Susan Parker, Jesus Christ. Intellectually, I knew better. But, practically, both in my private faith and as a theologian, I functioned as if Christ were simply Jesus’ surname. Whether in...
by Ron Rolheiser | May 17, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
There’s a saying attributed to Attila the Hun, a fifth century ruler infamous for his cruelty, which reads this way: “For me to be happy, it’s not just important that I succeed; it’s also important that everyone else fails.” I suspect that Atilla the Hun was not the...
by Ron Rolheiser | Apr 10, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The earth was dark twice. Once at the original creation before God first created light. But later there was an even deeper darkness, on Good Friday, between the sixth and ninth hour, when we were crucifying God, and as Jesus dying on the cross cried out “My God, my...
by Ron Rolheiser | Mar 28, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote an article about a lifelong friend who died by suicide. In describing his friend and his descent into a suicidal illness, Brooks sheds some needed light on how we still have a long way to go in our understanding...
