Spiritual But Not Religious?

by Father Robert Lauder Third in a Series There is so much that is good in Father James Martin’s book, “The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything” (HarperOne), that I feel as though I could write a column about every section in the book. In one section, Father Martin tackles the current idea among many people […]

What Is Your Spirituality?

Second in a Series By Fr. Robert Lauder Early on in his marvelous book, The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life (HarperOne), Father James Martin explains what he means by spirituality. He writes: “In brief, a spirituality is a way of living in relationship with God. Within the Christian tradition, all […]

For Cardinal Newman, It Was Personal

Second in a Series “READING FAITH MAPS: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger” (Paulist Press) by Michael Paul Gallagher, S.J., has brought back some wonderful memories. Back in the early 1970s, while I was teaching at what was then Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, I was part of a team-taught […]