Happy Feast Day of Saint Francis On October 4th we celebrate the Feast Day of the beloved saint, Francis of Assisi. This year we have been gifted with an extraordinary Read More
Don’t Publish, Mediate Conflict is brewing at the Vatican. When the Pontifical Academy for Sciences took up the Climate Change cause in concert with U.N. leaders and Read More
Why Learn to Resolve Conflict? We get this question a lot. There’s a fairly simple answer: unresolved conflict ruins lives. When we look around we find families ruined, nations Read More
I Did Not Come to Bring Peace Are we to become peacemakers, or not? The reading for Mass today casts doubt on our project. Matthew 10:34 presents deeply disturbing words spoken Read More
Wisdom and Crafty Souls  … It is the worst Of errors to try to teach a crude ignorance; wisdom will never make It’s way into a crafty Read More
Divine Collaboration In mediation we bring together parties who find their interests, intentions, desires, and needs colliding. The mediator facilitates a conversation and a negotiation, seeking Read More
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