The ride to the church seemed too short to give me time to unleash all those tears I had to preach What would I say How do you preach what you feel when you rsquo re one of only a few black people in the church What do you say to a mostly white congregation after the shooting death of 18-year-old
Like most folks I have been following events in Ferguson Missouri with equal measures of despair and frustration I have even watched the live feed from Vice news before a queasy feeling sent me away from my computer screen mdash the realization that I may have stumbled upon a new cultural phenom w
Pope Francis, in mourning for the deaths of his nephew's wife and two small children, thanked people at his weekly general audience Aug. 20 for their prayers.After each of the priests who translate the pope's words offered him condolences for the tragedy that struck his family, Pope Francis
PODCASTSThe theologian and writer Jonathan Malesic discusses why we need a theology of work and the importance of setting boundaries around our work lives. Elizabeth Dias, winner of America’s George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize, discusses the canonization of Mother Teresa 
In 1937, Paramount Pictures released “Make Way for Tomorrow,” a drama that documentarian Errol Morris once declared “the most depressing movie ever made, providing reassurance that everything will definitely end badly.” In it, an elderly couple (Victor Young, Beulah Bondi), l
Father Greg Boyle S J is an American Jesuit priest who works with Los Angeles street gangs as the founding director of Homeboy Industries in California nbsp Before founding Homeboy Industries as a non-profit ministry to his neighborhood rsquo s predominantly Hispanic gang members in 2001 Father
We are called to travel many paths some that challenge us others that inspire us To trust in God is to trust that whatever path we are now on is the one that will ultimately bring us to the Promised Land This is easy to say especially when one rsquo s path is not meandering through war zones or