A Reflection for Saturday of the First Week of Advent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

Naomi Klein's new book serves as a kind of sociopolitical post-mortem of the Covid era, in which our social divisions and paranoias only grew more strident. It is also tragically timely.

Let's talk about Advent Traditions.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Thirty-first Week of Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-seventh Week of Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

When we see a spectacular athlete praying in public, we can see her as a sort of athletic Christian soldier, a “counternarrative” to a godless culture or shallow world—and miss the simple, moving experience of the athlete, who is Christian, who is praying.

A Reflection for the Memorial of St. Peter Claver, Priest, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

Carl Lentz ultimately was not disgraced by his deceptions, sexual affairs and banishment from the pulpit of the megawatt Pentecostal church: He was re-graced.

The popular evangelical minister insists God will bless your life with abundance if you let him. Is that true?

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