Election season can be difficult. The intense rhetoric and heightened polarization of today’s society can strain our personal relationships or disrupt our inner peace. This new miniseries offers practical suggestions for how the wisdom of the Spiritual Exercises can...
What junk keeps you from having a deeper relationship with Jesus? Conan Rainwater, SJ, says our love for the Lord shows itself in those whose lives we touch. Based on the readings from the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Got any junk? Hi, I’m Conan Rainwater,...
At a Jesuit community dinner last week, an older Jesuit priest inquired about my recent summer travels. When I told him I had just returned from the 10th National Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, without a beat, he responded: “Oh yes, the Catholic Woodstock.”...
On May 18, 2024, a month before the end of my two years of regency in Morocco, I participated in my last tea ritual among the beautiful dunes of the Sahara. A ritual that began about forty minutes before when we all went out to contemplate the sunset that soothes the...
Over a cup of coffee at a busy Boston College quad, a student asked me, “why does God allow nice people to get hurt?” I gently inquired whether there was any suffering in her life or if this was a question from a philosophical standpoint. She answered the latter, and...
