Revised to include new essays as well as reflections on the recent beatification of Oscar Romero.
Introduces Carmelite spirituality, from the hermits of Mount Carmel to the sixteenth-century Spanish mystics, to Therese of Lisieux and Edith Stein.
"The opposite of authentic hope isn't despair. It is inauthentic hope. Inauthentic hope is optimism disconnected from reality. . ."
An essentital work that clarifies who we are in God and what we are to each other and what our purpose in life is.
Peter Phan reflects on how people can be genuinely religious if they live "interreligiously."
Where do we find hope in the hard work of human development?
How one middle-class parish made an option for the poor and rediscovered the Gospel.
Shows how participation in the Eucharist can mobilize not only individual sharing but community action to end hunger.
The Pope’s most prophetic writings on the environment.
