When we are in the car, we have to keep our eyes on the road. When it comes to our faith, we have to keep our eyes on Jesus. Emanuel Arenas, SJ, reflects on keeping focused and avoiding distractions in this week’s One-Minute Homily.
Atomic Pilgrim: A Book Review
In his forthcoming memoir Atomic Pilgrim, James Patrick Thomas recounts his cross-continental pilgrimage from Washington State to the Holy Land and his later activism back home. Writing for The Jesuit Post, Luke Lapean, SJ reflects on how the memoir provocatively asks whether true success in the struggle for change lies in measurable outcomes or in the quiet, interior transformation of the one who walks the road.
Our Political Idols: Why We Mislabel the Popes (and Ourselves)
Media narratives try to force Pope Leo XIV into political boxes that no pope can check. Alex Hale, SJ warns that politics now replaces religion in shaping American identity and calls Catholics to rise above division in pursuit of unity.
Eating Vegan and Healthy Isn’t Selfish — It’s Faithful
The Catholic faith esteems the human body as a temple of the Holy Spirit. Given the negative health outcomes of animal-based foods, Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ reflects how loving God, neighbor, and self through a plant-based diet seems to be a no-brainer.
“I Don’t Love My Country”
What do you love when you love your country?
One-Minute Homily: “O Come Let Us (Silently) Adore Him”
Making time for silence is one of the most countercultural – and nourishing – things we can do, says Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ in this week’s One-Minute Homily.
“Roma”: An Invitation Into Our Memory
Netflix film “Roma”: Oscar-worthy and Ignatian
The Christmas Hunger
We all have an emptiness, a dissatisfaction, a hunger.
Catholic Guide to 2019
Break out your calendars! Don’t miss these Catholic events in 2019.
TJP Best of 2018
The Jesuit Post’s most-read pieces and editors’ choice awards for 2018.