by Brian Strassburger, SJ | Dec 1, 2020 | Current Events, In the News, Justice ~ Approx. 9 mins
COVID-19 is not the first pandemic of our lifetime. But we’re certainly acting like it is. Missteps, misinformation, and pandemic-fatigue have propelled the virus into a brutal new wave of infections in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Have we...
by Jason McCreery | Oct 22, 2020 | Film, Justice, Pop Culture, Race, Topics, TV ~ Approx. 4 mins
This article contains spoilers for the Season 2 finale of the TV series, The Boys. Last month, at the start of Season 2 of Amazon’s The Boys, I reflected on how a show about superheroes (or ‘supes’) is able to expose our human weaknesses and whether or not we choose...
by Ian Peoples, SJ | Oct 9, 2020 | Film, Justice, Pop Culture, Science & Technology, Social Media, Topics ~ Approx. 3 mins
The beginning of Social Dilemma, the recently released Netflix documentary, poses a question to set up the entire film: what is beneath all the problems we are seeing in the tech industry and the world? Computer scientist and tech ethicist, Tristan Harris, is the one...
by Brendan Gottschall, SJ | Oct 5, 2020 | Creation, Current Events, Economics, Faith & Politics, Global Catholicism, Immigration, In the News, Papal News, Pope Francis ~ Approx. 6 mins
On the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, released the third encyclical letter of his papacy entitled Fratelli Tutti, on fraternity and social friendship. As with Laudato Si’, the title is an Italian quotation of the pope’s saintly...
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...
