by Tim Perron, SJ | Jul 26, 2023 | Current Events ~ Approx. 5 mins
In 1992, Pope Saint John Paul II gave a speech recognizing that the Catholic Church’s condemnation of Galileo, a famous 17th-century astronomer, was mistaken. Galileo held that the Earth revolved around the sun rather than the sun around the Earth. This was a point of...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Jun 21, 2023 | Prayers, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Each year we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on the day after we celebrate the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It is this Immaculate Heart of Mary that allowed her to give her “fiat” or her yes to the angel Gabriel. The heart of Mary can...
by Ty Wahlbrink, SJ | May 24, 2023 | Return to the Classics ~ Approx. 7 mins
One of the goals of The Jesuit Post is to create content that can be used in high school and college classrooms. The “Return to the Classics” series is one way we aim to fulfill that goal. Every year, thousands of students at Jesuit schools read a selection of the...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Apr 18, 2023 | Justice ~ Approx. 8 mins
“Slaveholding was always a choice.” This is the running theme in Christopher J. Kellerman’s book, All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church. The Church’s history of slaveholding then is “not of one choice, but of...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Dec 7, 2022 | Advent, Spirituality ~ Approx. 3 mins
Advent is a time for us to examine those parts of our lives that need the light of Christ. What parts of us are still in darkness? Many people when they hear the word “sin” may immediately think of things that have to do with sex. Have we confined the confessional to...
