February was first officially designated as Black History Month by President Ford in 1976. The origin of the celebration began in 1926 as Negro History Week. It was expanded to a month in the 1940’s in West Virginia. By the mid 1960’s in Chicago, several events were...
Commenting on Mary’s response to the Annunciation, author and chaplain Charles W. Sidoti recognizes patience as a form of contemplative action: To understand how “having patience” can be a form of action, it is first necessary to realize that having patience is about...
Generally speaking, growth in the Divine life is a process of gradual unfolding. For instance, the process of creation took eons to get from God’s first physical manifestation to now, with creation still evolving. The salvific journey took millennia to get from Abraham to Christ, and we still await the full, final realization of our union with...
Father John Dear wrote in the Center for Action and Contemplation’s Journal Radical Grace about the non-violent impact that interfaith cooperation can make. “ At the heart of each major religion is the vision of peace, the ideal of compassion and love and justice, the fundamental truth of nonviolence.” “Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) was the first ...
arbara Brown Taylor, an author, preacher and a member of the Center for Action and Contemplation, writes about what she calls “holy envy,” “ befriending followers of different traditions, and allowing such friendships to enrich our own faith. She summarizes an insight by ...
Contemplative practice is a school of many aspects of the Divine character, including patience. A contemplative lifestyle requires us to be patient with the unfolding of things: patient with ourselves as we learn to ...
Contemplative blogger Beth Godbee offers a writing practice for resolving to act with intention in the new year: Writing can help with deepening understandings and setting intentions. I find it helps me to have...
Father Richard Rohr, a Franciscan priest at the Center for Action and Contemplation, explores the fruitfulness of interfaith friendship. “In no other period of history have humans had such easy and immediate access to people of other cultures and religions, often as ...
If we’re honest, any relationship that isn’t growing and changing, is instead dying. So, our prayer lives will necessarily change, both in light of God’s continual revelation to us of the Godself and our own True Selves, and in response to the circumstances of our lives as they develop. The reality and necessity of change in ...
On November 22, 2022 the World Jewish Congress reported that Pope Francis welcomed the World Jewish Congress’ launch of a historic initiative known as “Kishreinu (Hebrew for “Our Bond") intended to strengthen Jewish-Catholic ties around the globe, explaining that...