Want to experience joy? Listen. Discern. Live your vocation. In this week’s One-Minute Homily, Fr. Michael Rossmann, SJ reminds us that God continues to call good shepherds.
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.
This Old House
“Living in an old house, like listening to old music, reminds me that I’m part of something greater than I am, something broader.”
Worth Reading: Socrates’s Best Burns
In his role as president of the Defend Socrates At All Costs fanclub Paddy Gilger has unearthed some unacceptable, albeit humorous, Socrates slander over at BuzzFeed.
Papal Novelties
Old news is new news and that’s all good news.
Doctor Who as Religion
Academic comparisons of sci-fandom to religious community has our man John Shea wondering about his status as a full-fledged Whovian.
Fun! A Spiritual Manifesto
Michael Rossmann has decided that enough is enough; it’s high time for a spiritual manifesto. What’s on his agenda? Fun.
Worth Reading: “Saints John Paul II and John XXIII”
Over at America James Martin has written about the dual canonization of Sts. John Paul II and John XXIII.