Perspective: Conducting the symphony of our life
By Ricardo Márquez News of bombings, conflicting interpretations of what happened; commentaries that favor one group over another; growing suspicions, doubts, contradictions. It all…
Perspective: The power of a look
By Ricardo Márquez There are looks that wound, looks that illuminate and give strength, looks that are compassionate or humiliate. The way we look…
Perspective: What we can learn from the Titan implosion
By Ricardo Márquez Some news stories become symbols of the times we live in. The implosion of the submersible Titan is one of those…
Perspective: Tensions, challenges and hopes in an ordinary day
By Ricardo Márquez In an ordinary day at the entrance to a daycare, you can see some children crying; mothers or fathers rushing to…
Perspective: Embrace new ‘jobs’ in retirement
By Father Charles “Chuck” Fuld Sounds simple enough: “I’m going to retire in a few months (or years) and this is what it will be like…
A farewell, and a road to uncertainty
By Ricardo Márquez When we leave a place is when we appreciate the advantages, values and emotions that come with a job, the colleagues…
Perspective: Let us bring light where there is darkness
By Ricardo Márquez Jesus’ death was shameful, humiliating, a disgrace. The spirit that inhabits us needs time and an openness to mature in the…
Perspective: ‘I don’t have time to listen to your story’
By Ricardo J. Márquez, PhD “Do you want to listen to my story?” a woman screamed in the parking lot of a bank. A…
Perspective: We desperately need an ‘emotional disarmament’
By Ricardo Márquez Before nuclear disarmament, humanity needs a cultural disarmament, the Spanish theologian, Raimon Panikkar, tells us. In the wake of the recent…
Perspective: Why I chose life over death
By Sarah Keller I have come to strongly believe that adoption is as viable an option as parenting. Why? Because I had an abortion.…
Perspective: My ‘resurrection’ story begins with terrible loss
By Father Charles “Chuck” Fuld A few weeks ago, I was invited to give a presentation at a men’s retreat sponsored by the Knights…
