by Sean Reilly | Jan 15, 2008
The famous opening of the Gospel of St John — “In the beginning was the Word” — always reminds me that when the early Church spoke about the Word of God, it did not mean the Bible, it meant Jesus. Jesus was the Word — in Greek, the logos. It is a remarkable term, for...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
Well, am I a political junkie? Certainly, I used to be one. That became apparent to me back during the closing phase of the 1992 US presidential campaign, when I was doing a lot of travel for Friends World Committee for Consultation. One of those trips, just before...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way… that is not easy. – Aristotle Blasts of raw emotion that can best be named anger occasionally...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 14, 2008
My friend and neighbour Father Andrew Greeley, sociologist, novelist, and columnist, reminded me in a recent e-mail that he liked to be called a “Catholic,” not a “Roman Catholic.” In his Chicago Sun-Times column earlier this month (January...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 11, 2008
The Good Shepherd Report From the Joint Working Group on Catholicity and Globalization The second meeting of a three-year theological consultation on Catholicity and Globalization took place from November 13 to 16, 2007, in New York, hosted by The Episcopal Church and...
