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Grief, Relationality, and Animals: A Call to Bother to Love

Grief, Relationality, and Animals: A Call to Bother to Love

by Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ | Jul 1, 2025 | Spirituality    ~ Approx. 5 mins

A few years back, outrage erupted when California State Fair officials slaughtered a nine-year-old child’s goat. Legally, the state owned the goat through the 4H program. Unfortunately for the little girl who had raised the goat, she had become attached to it. But how...
Silence Is Not an Option in Matters of Life and Death

Silence Is Not an Option in Matters of Life and Death

by Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ | Dec 13, 2022 | Creation, Current Events, Science & Technology    ~ Approx. 8 mins

Being pro-life and vegan puts me in an extreme minority. Only 39% of Americans identify as pro-life, and 3% identify as vegan. While there is no data on people who are both pro-life and vegan, general intuition and anecdotal evidence suggest that to be a small...
What is the moral status of animals?

What is the moral status of animals?

by Daniel Mascarenhas, SJ | Aug 10, 2022 | Creation, Current Events, Science & Technology    ~ Approx. 7 mins

One evening, during a relaxed dinner conversation with a friend and his family, the topic of dog meat came up. Tom’s brother had gotten sick while traveling through Southeast Asia and his illness was attributed to dog meat which purportedly overwhelmed the American...

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How can brushstrokes become a prayer? In this reflection, Sebastián Salamanca-Huet, SJ recounts how St. Peter Claver and the Rarámuri people helped him see that being Jesuit and artist are not two callings, but one vocation.

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