Serra showed genuine if imperfect care for Native people. How can we do the same?
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inDispatches
Three new bishops in Los Angeles: sketches of an ordination
“You are the light of the world. But always remember the light you hold is not your own.”
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Pope Francis calls on European parishes to take in migrants. Why don’t we do the same?
More than in most countries the church in the United States has the means and the will to help. So let’s put those resources to work.
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Will twelve percent of the United States gain a legal right to assisted suicide tomorrow?
Tomorrow the State Assembly of the state of California may very well pass a bill to make assisted suicide legal for its 38+ million residents.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
People of the Book
Before hitting the big screen, comics were stories our parents read to us.
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For every angry Tweet, why not put a buck in the #TwitterSwearJar?
There is a tendency to believe that issuing a 140 character response to a matter of urgency actually constitutes making a difference.
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What does Sesame Street’s move to HBO say about us?
Whatever happened to our idealism? It’s starting to look like we think being an idealist means wearing an Apple Watch.
Posted inFaith, Poetry
If the environmental encyclical didn’t change your heart or mind, maybe poetry can.
Like Pope Francis, Oliver’s poetry invites readers to let the distractions of our modern, constant motion, hyper-stimulated world fall away from time to time, to enter into that quiet place of contemplation and gratitude that waits in the world all around us.
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Saint Ignatius, Fox Mulder and the Truth Out There
The Jesuit insight in the ‘X-Files’
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Los Angeles Bans High Capacity Gun Magazines
‘People who want to defend their families don’t need a 100-round drum magazine.’