Voices
Brother Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and the author of O Death, Where is Thy Sting: A Meditation on Suffering.
Arts & CultureShort Take
The maligning of this girl’s good name has to end. And, at least in our pages, it will end.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Sure, we can talk about excellence. But we shouldn’t accept as fact the idea that we can rank the worth of a piece of art. That is a fiction itself, a fundamental untruth.
FaithLent Reflections
A Reflection for the First Monday of Lent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
FaithFaith in Focus
Can we ultimately trust the smirking ones in our midst, the sarcastic with a clever quip for our every move, for each vulnerable moment?
FaithAdvent Reflections
A Reflection for the Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
FaithAdvent Reflections
A Reflection for the Thursday of the First Week of Advent
FaithFaith in Focus
How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?
Arts & CulturePoetry
he opened up the window for Dec 24 even though it was like Dec 3
FaithShort Take
Many topics of great import were discussed at the meeting of the U.S. bishops. But they missed the mark on bingo, confession and whether cats possess prevenient grace.
FaithFaith in Focus
That heartbreaking baseball defeat seeming to distill and crystallize all of it; pointing to something so bleak, sad and hopeless tucked into the fabric of everything.