Prophetic Dialogue"When we speak of mission as dialogue, then, we are about as far away from imagining mission as conquering the world for Christ and missionaries as marines of the Catholic Church as we probably can get. There has indeed been a radical shift, both in the world in which the church does mission and within the church's own consciousness of the goodness and even holiness of that world." These words from one of the essays in this superb collection clearly

Her writings reflect the qualities that endeared her to friends and those she served

While recounting the more familiar tales of heroic saints like Patrick

she goes out to tell her neighbors about the mysterious stranger

Venezuela and is currently a professor at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University

Jose Comblin

She is the author of many best-selling books

Boff writes

What does Saint Martin de Porres' beatification process tell us

I don't want your action any longer

Indiana University

But they would end up teaching him much more about life

are modern spiritual classics