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What Does Reconciliation Look Like After the Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol?

What Does Reconciliation Look Like After the Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol?

by Danny Gustafson, SJ | Jan 15, 2021 | Current Events, Faith & Politics, In the News, Justice    ~ Approx. 3 mins

January of 2008 and January of 2021 found me focused on the same building, but at profoundly different points in my life and for profoundly different reasons. In January of 2008, I had just acquired my Congressional ID badge. As a freshman at Georgetown University, I...
What the Prophetic Words of Jeremiah Call Us to Today

What the Prophetic Words of Jeremiah Call Us to Today

by Erin Kast, SJ | Sep 3, 2020 | Current Events, Faith & Politics, In the News, Justice, Spirituality    ~ Approx. 4 mins

Last Saturday, August 29th, marked the feast of the beheading of St. John the Baptizer, the last and greatest of all scriptural prophets. The words from the book of the prophet Jeremiah which coincided in the Divine Office with St. John’s feast could not have been...
United We Stand: Rapinoe, the White House, and World Cup Glory

United We Stand: Rapinoe, the White House, and World Cup Glory

by Ian Peoples, SJ | Jul 5, 2019 | Faith & Politics, Global Catholicism, In the News, Pop Culture, Sports    ~ Approx. 4 mins

As the USWNT marches into the World Cup Final this weekend, the team’s star forward and co-captain Megan Rapinoe has filled headlines with her back-and-forth exchanges with President Trump, turning attention away from the team’s on-the-field victories to...
Honduran Migrant Caravans: Interview with Iolany Pérez of Radio Progreso

Honduran Migrant Caravans: Interview with Iolany Pérez of Radio Progreso

by David Inczauskis, SJ | Jan 9, 2019 | Immigration    ~ Approx. 4 mins

About 15,000 more Hondurans are preparing to leave San Pedro Sula in a migrant caravan on January 15, 2019. Like others before them, they will journey through Guatemala and Mexico to the US border. I recently sat down to discuss the phenomenon with Iolany Pérez, the...
Seven More Things You Might Have Missed in The Young Pope

Seven More Things You Might Have Missed in The Young Pope

by Jason Downer, SJ | Jan 24, 2017 | Justice, Pop Culture, TV    ~ Approx. 3 mins

For us, this show’s going from weird to downright disturbing.  Watching a megalomaniac impervious to counsel tear apart an institution that we love is a bit too much for us to take at the moment.  That in mind, here are the things that stuck with us, starting with the...
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