If parish priests can’t stand up for the poor in this moment, we might as well pack up our Mass kits.
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inFaith, Features
What happens when a family of refugees is invited to live with a community of Jesuits?
An Ethiopian family arrived in Malta as refugees. A Jesuit community welcomed them.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Are we shouting past each other? On finding ‘safe spaces’ for dialogue
Colleges and universities around the country find themselves struggling to discern how best to negotiate free speech on their campuses
Posted inPolitics & Society
Barack Obama’s first inauguration revisited
The truth or foolishness of Obama’s hopeful vision of our country rests in the choices we will make.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Mass Murder of Children Everyday
Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Who will be Donald Trump’s real opposition? Maybe the state of California.
The real alternative government in the United States is not the federal Democratic Party, but the state government of California.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Learning from Carrie Fisher and the rest of the secular saints we lost in 2016
These people’s lives gave us a glimpse of something meaningful, something that liberated or encouraged us.
Posted inArts & Culture, In All Things
The Jew, Catholic and Midwestern Christian behind ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
The holiday special was the product of a Jewish producer from San Francisco and a Mexican-American Catholic whose mother brought him across the border in the 1920s.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Every church tells a story. (Even those with brutalist architecture.)
We become aware there is a much bigger story at work.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
The election made us hate each other—is Star Wars our only hope?
None of our intense political and social divisions are going to matter come Thursday at midnight.