Where are you headed? Who's leading you? What's blocking your way? In this week's One-Minute Homily, Fr. Joe Laramie, SJ, talks about the road of life. Based on the readings for Sunday, September 30, which you can find here: https://bit.ly/2NHvJH0
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.
Putting Love Back in “Tough Love”
Lashing with the whip of truth? Quang Tran on the truth about truth-telling.
TJPodcast: Rosetta Stone and the Grammar of Silence
Rosetta Stone has no “prayer” section. Garrett Gundlach muses about praying when language works against us.
Worth Reading: “The Sinner Pope”
There’s nothing wrong with asking what he’s going to do. Editor-in-chief Paddy Gilger just thinks you should first ask who Pope Francis really is.
La Aleatoriedad de Dios
Nuestro propio biólogo evolutivo Jesuita reconcilia la aleatoriedad de la evolución con la religión usando ideas de Jackson Pollock y… ¿Garth Brooks?
A “Random” God?
Our very own evolutionary biologist John Shea reconciles the randomness of evolution with religion through the lenses of Jackson Pollock and…Garth Brooks?
When Good Laws Go Bad
Thought the law would protect you when you needed it most? Think again. TJP law contributor Nate Romano would like to tell you about so-called nuisance laws.