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Beyond Violence: The Path Through Grief to Spiritual Evolution

By Ilia Delio | September 11, 2025

The recent shooting at Annunciation School in Minneapolis continues to haunt our collective consciousness. While the news cycle moves forward—with yet more senseless acts of political violence—the Annunication tragedy leaves deep scars and pressing questions for our religious community: How does a young person educated in a Catholic school become capable of such violence? There are no simple answers. Research consistently links exposure to media violence—including video games, television, movies, and music—with increased aggression in youth. Violent video games, in which killing is winning, is one of many influences on the behavior of youth today. While violent video games alone do not cause violence, when combined with depression, isolation, or family dysfunction, they can become catalysts for aggression. Some scholars...

A Lenten Invitation

By Ilia Delio | February 25, 2020

God of Love, open our hearts on this Lenten journey to know that death is part of life, that life seeks more life, and that the fullness of life is…

God can emerge in new ways through Teilhard’s ‘troubled worship’

By Ilia Delio | February 12, 2020

It is almost five years since the inception of Pope Francis’s encyclical “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common Home” and, unfortunately, nothing has changed with regard to global warming.…

Omega Center Conference Slides

By Center for Christogenesis | January 21, 2020

Click on the slides below to view our conference presenters’ slides: Does AI Need Religion? Exploring Teilhard’s Noosphere by Ilia Delio + Inside Our Awakening Universe The New Cosmic…

Ritiro Omega Discussion Group: The Cosmic Christ and Revolution

By Sr Paula Scraba | January 15, 2020

The Ritiro Omega Discussion Group met in December, 2019 to reflect on the blog by Sr. Ilia Delio from September 30, 2019 The Cosmic Christ and Revolution and Posted Comments.…

Praying in Teilhard’s Universe

By Ilia Delio | January 14, 2020

Thomas of Celano, the first biographer of Saint Francis of Assisi, wrote that Francis did not so much pray as he became a “living prayer.” I think the same could…

New Year 2020

By Ilia Delio | December 31, 2019

Dear friends, Today, on the penultimate day of 2019, I saw a rainbow stretched across the sky in a spectrum of light. A rainbow symbolizes a bridge between the present…

Interview: Uncovering New Ideas and Truths by Integrating Science and Religion

By Ilia Delio | November 24, 2019

In this wide ranging and fascinating interview with Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, Ilia first shares her background and how she developed an interest in…

God and the World in Teilhard

By Don Viney | October 11, 2019

In April 1934, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote to Henri du Lubac, a fellow Jesuit, “I mistrust metaphysics (in the usual sense of the word), because I smell a geometry…

Volunteer with Omega Center

By Center for Christogenesis | October 7, 2019

Dear Omega Friends, Change is in the air, both with the season of autumn and here at Omega Center. We just held our first ever livestreaming webinar, our annual conference…