What does “apocalypse” mean? Fr. Joseph Dickan, SJ, reflects that it means God has drawn close to us in Christ. Based on the readings for the First Sunday of Advent.
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.
Vowed to Love
Michael Martinez’s new Hip-Hop video for “Love is Above” features students from the Fe y Alegría school network to help show that the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience are meant to help us grow in our capacity to love.
Catholic 101: Gifts of the Holy Spirit
The gifts of the Holy Spirit empower us to have hearts and minds like that of Jesus Christ and grant us a foretaste of the divine life.
Praying through Crisis? Try and Ride the Waves.
After a family tragedy, Ignatius got prayer advice from an unexpected source: the ducks on Lake Michigan.
A Catholic Consideration of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan’s Netflix docuseries is part of a new wave of research that pushes our Church to ask hard questions.
The Vow of Chastity: My parents taught me what it means to love and be loved
The vow of chastity can be the most confounding and unsettling, both to those who process the vows and to those who don’t. Nick reflects on the challenges and the graces of this vow and how he learned to live it through the example of his parents.
I Couldn’t Find God on My Twitter Feed. He Pulled Me Back into the Real World.
With *ALL THIS* going on, Ty struggled to find God on his newsfeed. In his first article, he shares how God turned him to his neighbors instead.