When it feels like he has nothing to write, Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ knows something is wrong. Thank God it’s not permanent.
Posts in Spirituality
Some Catholics
The Catholic Church has been described as “here comes everybody.” In Some Catholics, Joe Hoover, in vibrant detail, describes… some Catholics.
The Advent Blues
The waiting is the hardest part, but Peter Folan describes how waiting is at the heart of this season before Christmas.
We Used to Be Grateful
For some it’s nutmeg and cinnamon. For others it’s cigarettes and snow. Brendan Busse, SJ reflects on memories of half-smoked cigarettes and our need of a generous thanksgiving.
To Touch and Be Touched
Eric Immel, SJ finds himself among some amorous strangers and notes within himself multiple desires: to love and serve. To touch and and to be touched.
Expect Delays: The Inefficiency of Care
Keith Maczkiewicz, SJ wasted hours in the car trying to support a friend. Turns out, it was time well spent.
Remembering the Dead in The Book of Life
With all the holidays that compete for attention this time of year, what are the real roots of our celebrations?
Wedding Gifts and Traveling Mercies
When a happily-ever-after wedding is followed by an unexpected death in the family, Brendan Busse, SJ discovers gratitude in grief and friends in our ‘faulty’ stars.
On Love and Dignity and Dying
Dignity isn’t opposed to suffering. Sometimes suffering reveals dignity’s truest face.
Contagious: Love in the Time of Ebola
What if we came to understand that the lives and suffering of others already affects us?