Among all the news articles I have read in the past couple of years, I am not ungrateful that one poignant, below-the-fold story has remained with me, a glow-in-the-dark star stuck to a ceiling. When Pope Francis visited Indonesia in September 2024, The New York Times reported about a group of transgender women in South […]
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
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Trying to do an impossible thing with the ‘Our Father’
A Reflection for Tuesday of the First Week of Lent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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How Jesuit education shaped Omaha’s new archbishop
One of Archbishop Michael G. McGovern’s questions was: “What advice do you have for me?”
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Different kinds of John the Baptists
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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It’s O.K. to fear the writing on the wall
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Where divisions get real for Christians
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Poetry review: Lyric wonder, again and again
In this year’s poetry roundup, some of the poets whose collections we discuss are Catholic, some are not. But regardless of their religious commitments, wonder shows up in these poets’ work again and again.
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Behind the scenes of a Jesuit brother’s unchristian Christian film
I did not write “The Allegory” to be an apologia for Christianity. I began writing the film script in my bedroom in Crown Heights in the summer of 2022 because I had never written a film script.
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A prayer to know God’s will—and carry it out
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Remembering Robert Redford and ‘Ordinary People,’ his devastating, nearly perfect film
The film is so hard, so painful and so truthful. There is barely a false note to be found.