At the beginning of Lent, we focus on…our death?! Jeff Ryan Miraflor, SJ, and Eric Immel, SJ, reflect on death, Lent, and the greater meaning of life.
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.
Born in Love: On Advent and Adoption
Eric Immel, SJ always knew he was adopted in love. Advent reminds him that he was also born there.
8 Proofs that John the Baptist was the Proto-Hipster
Is there a patron saint of hipsters? Michael Rossmann knows who it should be.
A Frat Boy’s Confession: An Open Letter to the Fraternity Men of America
Unwittingly and with the best of intentions, I was an enabler of violence…
Advent On Film: “Babette’s Feast” & the Gift of Reconciliation
Can a good meal be more than just satisfying? Matt White SJ explores Babette’s Feast for its profound message of reconciliation.
Pope Francis’s Ecology Encyclical – What Can We Expect?
The word emanating from Vatican corridors is that we can expect to see the long awaited environment-themed encyclical at some point during 2015. The exact date has not been disclosed, but it could coincide with Francis’ apostolic visit to the Philippines in January, a...
In the Kingdom of the Enemy: Reading the Torture Report
Sin and violence has its own terrible internal logic, and the torture report shows us that we’re trapped in it.