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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...

Love Out of Darkness

By Ilia Delio | May 19, 2019

Question: How do we know if our thinking and doing is coming from the ground of love? I can feel this ground in silence but it is harder in the…

From the Ritiro Omega Discussion Group

By Sr Paula Scraba | May 10, 2019

Theistic Evolution: A New Religious Story by Sr. Paula Scraba, OSF and the Allegany Franciscan Sisters from the Ritiro Omega Group The discussion opened around the question, “How can the…

Crum Creek Visitation

By Mark Wallace | May 2, 2019

I recently encountered a great blue heron while teaching my Swarthmore College class, Religion and Ecology. I was conducting a three-hour class meeting in the Crum Woods, the scenic watershed…

The Resurrection and the beginning of a new earth

By Ilia Delio | April 23, 2019

Faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ expresses the belief that “Love is strong as death” (Song 8:6). Resurrection is the greater strength of love in the face of death.…

Dead and Alive

By Ilia Delio | April 22, 2019

He is not here! But we are… Tragedy and Beauty Sorrow and Mystery Innocent lives killed in the midst of God’s glory. What kind of God is this Who rises…

An Easter Reflection on Suffering, Death, and Resurrection

By Gregory Hansell | April 19, 2019

There is no compassion without suffering, no transformation without death. No growth without decay, no development without loss, no complexity without danger. Imagine how it feels for a loving God…

SUFFERING AND DEATH: A REFLECTION

By Ilia Delio | April 16, 2019

Each day we awake to a new world of struggle.The abuse crisis of the Catholic Church continues unabated, children and refugees are held captive in the U.S. borderland camps, racial…

To Die on the Day of Resurrection

By Peter Haas | April 8, 2019

One year before Teilhard de Chardin died, his nephew heard Teilhard say that, “I should like to die on the day of Resurrection.” A year later, on April 10th, 1955…

Second Annual Omega Center Conference

By Ilia Delio | April 8, 2019

Love at the Heart of the Cosmos: Living in Relational Wholeness Commonwealth Chateau at SugarLoaf Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA December 6th – 8th, 2019 Check-in begins Friday, December…