Is it sound theology to think God was on one's own side after a victory? Who can capture the mind of God; do we know that he doesn't care who wins a game?

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

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If you would have asked me ahead of time, my hunch—fair or not—would have been that a gymnasium filled with wrestlers’ parents and fans, particularly in the western reaches of rural South Dakota, would not have a lot of empathy and patience for needy little creatures threatening to disrupt their earnest games.

A Reflection for Friday of the Third Week of Advent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

When our superior told us that Jerry Huyett had died in Florida, I realized, in a way I never quite had before, a very basic thing; maybe the most basic thing of all: Life ends.

A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

”I can’t say it’s not my fault,” says Lincoln Project co-founder Stuart Stevens. Really? Someone in American politics actually said that?

A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.