“What–can one do who rejects mastery?” Negotiating North Kivu from across the Atlantic. August 2013.
Click on image to enlarge. [Image from near Rumangabo, outside Goma, DRC, 2011.] “Is is not characteristic of reality to …
Click on image to enlarge. [Image from near Rumangabo, outside Goma, DRC, 2011.] “Is is not characteristic of reality to …
Click on image to enlarge. “… better an act of mercy than a discussion of theology.” – Thomas F. O’Meara, …
[Palm Sunday, Goma DRC, two years past.] This morning we arrived in the knick of time. It took me …
We live in a globalized world and we are all consumers, which is often written about, by myself included, as …
188h Sunday in Ordinary Time, 2012 Mid-Atlantic, Flight LH 426, half-way out “There is no way to write this …
Feast of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, 2012 Despite the new Skyscrapers, Kigali is not such a big city. In …
“Nothing is theater anymore, the drama is no longer a game. Everything is serious.” – Lévinas
Last Sunday, before the ordination of a friend, from monk to priest, I had to wait for an hour, in …
Sister Joespha arrived in Goma in December of 1954. She helped to set up the first primacy school for girls. She arrived when Congo was a Belgian colony. She stayed through Independence, through the Simba Rebellion, and the civil war, the Mobutu regime, the pan-African wars fought in the Congo. She never left.
“Those who authentically commit themselves to the people must re-examine themselves constantly. This conversion is so radical as not to allow for ambivalent behavior… Conversion to the people requires a profound rebirth. Those who undergo it must take on a new form of existence; they can no longer remain as they were.” – Paulo Friere
[Process defines outcome.]