Any sport requires practice and discipline in order to get better. Prayer is the same way! Emmanuel Arenas, SJ, gives us some encouragement for developing our prayer lives 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.
Jurassic Park and the Problem of Ambition
Cool dinosaur fights? Yep. Moral reflection? Not so much.
Mamma Mia and the Heroic Love of Motherhood
Despite our imperfections, heroic love can ABBAsolutely change our lives.
Identifying the Enemy
Spadaro, Figueroa, and Pope Francis on the Prosperity Gospel
State-Sponsored Terror in Nicaragua Strikes the Church
Danielista paramilitary agents punch a bishop and shoot at a parish.
One-Minute Homily: “Compassionate Teaching”
Of course we need to feed the hungry, but compassionate people also study their faith and share it with others, says Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ in this week’s “One-Minute Homily.”
What It Takes To Be A Hero
What does it take to be a hero? My Hero Academia offers a surprising answer.