A simple, “Thank you,” can be a powerful prayer. Deacon Tim Breene, SJ, reflects on the importance of gratitude.
Grief, Relationality, and Animals: A Call to Bother to Love
Grief at the death of animals reveals a moral obligation we too often ignore. Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ argues that if we dare to feel this grief, it becomes a call to love them as fellow creatures of God.
Unstoppable Grace: Sacraments and Sinful Ministers
Reflecting on his current studies in theology, Josh reflects on how a hundreds-year-old debate on the sacraments touched his own life and brought him healing.
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.
Defend (or Ditch) Democracy
“Russian” to conclusions ignores the bigger threat to democracy
“Boy Erased,” Conversion Therapy, and the Catholic Church
“Boy Erased” shows the damage caused by conversion therapy, a practice which also has a sad history in the Catholic Church.
Let’s Go! Pokémon is Back
Appease old fans or reach out to new ones…what’s a franchise to do?
In the Still of the Night
In restless silence, there is a way to find peace.
A Saint for the Stubborn: Stanislaus Kostka
This saint shows us not to wait to dedicate our lives to God, says Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ, in talking about St. Stanislaus Kostka in this edition of One-Minute Saints.
Mass Apathy
Sometimes faith can be unremarkable and routine. God is still there.