What are some of the biggest moments of your life? For God, it was your baptism. Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, reflects on the Baptism of the Lord and the moment when we were brought into the family of God. Based on the readings for January 12, 2020....
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.
Sister Cristina is back and she is taking on Madonna
Singing Nun, Loving Song
9 Short Tips To Balance Tech and Soul
If technology is how and where we meet and share, how do we go there with our whole selves, not just our shopper and gossiper?
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?
As a Packer in Bear Country
Is the NFL still a place to find happiness? These days it can be hard to tell, but Eric Immel, SJ found something like happiness on the train after a recent game.
Church Music’s Greatest Decade: with Bonus Track!
The Lord is groovy, and only one decade had the music to prove it.