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Lessons from Rome for DC?

Michael O'Loughlin October 3, 2013

The Poor Get Poorer

First, a heartwarming story out of Boston. Glen James, a homeless man in his 50s, was walking through a parking lot when he noticed a…

Syria: How Can We Fix This?

Pope Francis caught even BuzzFeed’s attention over the weekend when expressing his views on possible foreign intervention in Syria via Twitter: War never again! Never…

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7 Simple Lessons in Humility for Your Everyday Life

I stumbled across J Augustine Wetta’s “Humility Rules” while looking for books about faith on Amazon. I bought it because who doesn’t need more humility…

Work

The Magis: An Ignatian Antidote for Burnout

This summer, I finally got around to cleaning up the tall bookshelf in my office overflowing with books and binders. I soon came across a…

Saints

How to be a Saint-in-the-Making

In Roman mythology, Janus was the god usually depicted as having two faces, one that looks back into the past and one that looks forward…

Christian Persecution in Today’s World

Rowan Williams, the erudite former Archbishop of Canterbury, lamented that some Christians in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other Western nations claim “persecution”…

On Race, A Divided Church

I was at a restaurant in the H Street corridor, a so-called up-and-coming neighborhood in northeast Washington, D.C., a couple weekends ago. Edison bulbs hung…