Rose Marie Berger To have the "poor one" at the center of the Catholic faith is right and just. I W ...

Rose Marie Berger Baptism means we are imprinted on Christ. FROM THE RIVER to the rope. From the creek to the ...

Rose Marie Berger The Beloved Community is not a utopian ideal. DURING THE unseasonably warm autumn of 1951, ...

Rose Marie Berger With a warm hen under my arm, I remembered Jesus' plea over another empire-ridden city. ...

Rose Marie Berger Women still are forced to operate as second-class citizens in the church. EVER SINCE THE ap ...

Rose Marie Berger Remembering Ada María Isasi-Díaz Ada María Isasi-Díaz often quipped that she “was born a fe ...

Rose Marie Berger As the human soul matures, we are confronted with moments that force us to let go of yet another thin veil of self-delu ...

Rose Marie Berger What does God's "settlement" look like? Today’s Washington Post sits ope ...

Rose Marie Berger The bigger the financial corporation, the quicker your dollar exits your community. I final ...

Rose Marie Berger When, as is true today, the richest 10 percent own 85 percent of the world’s wealth and the poorest 50 percent live off ...

Rose Marie Berger No one could stop Troy Davis' execution -- despite his apparent innocence. THE STATE O ...

Rose Marie Berger My "life plan" -- at age 23 -- was to own little and to move where the Spirit led. ...

Rose Marie Berger Who is the woman at the well? Have you seen the Dos Equis commercials starring actor Jonatha ...

Rose Marie Berger Addiction is not an individual disease; it's a family sickness. My 7-year-old nephew s ...

Rose Marie Berger Last week the body of a young woman was found near my house. She was 17 years old. She'd been murdered. The garbag ...

Rose Marie Berger It's often good to have a donkey with you when you pray. They provide a natural antidote to excessive piety. Take m ...

Rose Marie Berger "For God so loved the world ..." Lately John 3:16 won't leave me alone. It hovers above my shoulder as I ...

Rose Marie Berger Knowing that we are going to die, how then should we live? This week I planted a Roma tomato ...

Rose Marie Berger The nice vendor who sells aromatic oils in front of Speedy Liquor on 14th Street got stabbed the other day. Word on the ...

Rose Marie Berger There are two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle, de ...

Rose Marie Berger Sister Linda Fuselier was my first-grade teacher. It was 1969 at St. Ignatius Catholic School in Sacramento, California. ...

Rose Marie Berger In July, Pope Benedict wrote you a love letter. Like all love letters, it’s worth savoring. ...

Rose Marie Berger It’s summer here in the northern climes—and summer means the swimming pool. It’s summer here ...

Rose Marie Berger I dreamt last night I was being deployed to Iraq. I dreamt last night I was being deployed t ...

Rose Marie Berger Francis Perkins was the consience behind the New Deal. When Frances Perkins was appointed S ...

Rose Marie Berger What's the unique contribution of religion to the 'green economy'? Rachel Car ...

Rose Marie Berger Forgiveness is an act of will. Fake it until you make it. Lately, I’ve been wrestling with f ...

Rose Marie Berger On Jan. 20, the United States of America inaugurates its first African-American president and first Catholic vice presid ...

Rose Marie Berger The great wheel of the Christian liturgical year is turning once again. The great wheel of t ...

Rose Marie Berger Why do we bear the fractured order of love? In my mind, I am climbing above the tree line. T ...

Rose Marie Berger Pondering the rights of the poor while in line at Dunkin' Donuts. It’s Sunday morning. ...

Rose Marie Berger Sometimes, Easter finds us. In 2005, on a spring trip to El Salvador, I wasn’t expecting to ...

Rose Marie Berger "I have come to love the darkness." As a child, I was terrified of Good Friday and ...

Rose Marie Berger During Lent, we think about the saints who listened in the night. He’s not an official Cat ...

Rose Marie Berger Mary and Elizabeth teach hope in bitter times. For many years I wore a necklace with a holy ...

Rose Marie Berger During Lent, we think about the saints who listened in the night. (Columns, The Hungry S ...

Rose Marie Berger Are beauty and truth a luxury? Now we are in the season of storms. Supercells tower above th ...

Rose Marie Berger It's very complicated to have hope. Whenever I see a photograph by Sebastião Salgado, I ...

Rose Marie Berger Our children are coming home from the front lines- and they have questions. How are we, as A ...

Rose Marie Berger Bewilderment is not momentary confusion. It is becoming fundamentally displaced. Every once ...

Rose Marie Berger 2007 is a Sabbath Year. Every seventh year, according to biblical tradition, the people of God are invited to observe a ...

Rose Marie Berger I was haunted by the King of Beers. I confess that I did a double take. At 65 mph I sidled u ...

Rose Marie Berger What habits do you have that generate hope? "Advent is the beginning of the end of all ...

Rose Marie Berger Covenants always have social and political implications. The season of Pentecost, according ...

Rose Marie Berger Soon the first stars will move tentatively into the field of sky. I’ve had the joy of vi ...

Rose Marie Berger Many pentecostals trace their spiritual heritage to the Azusa Street revival. April marked t ...

Rose Marie Berger Lent invites us to a 'tranquil listening of the heart.' Europeans were muting the ...

Rose Marie Berger Prayer can literally change our brain. For 15 years the Dalai Lama—whose title means Ocean o ...

to be processed. Everyone was given the option of either a court appearance or a $75 fine. My arrest slip ...

Rose Marie Berger Through work we not only transform the world, we are transformed ourselves. ...