Why is it this way? It is the child’s most basic question, dealing with the most bewildering thing of all.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Good (and a bit clichéd) Jesuit wisdom for pandemic spirituality: Just let go.
As churches have opened up all over the country, there has been a particularly powerful and graced “letting go” available for some Catholics.
Posted inAdvent Reflections, Faith
Believe in the good things that are coming your way
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Ambrose
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Lamb and Where it Went
Christ bursts into the manger, quickened into cows
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Infuriating life (and post-election) advice: If you want peace, accept things as they are.
This is the prayer: Accept things as they are. It was all meant to be.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Poems for a Pandemic
Poetry is an attempt to say the unsayable, to capture what ultimately eludes.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
In the Wake of the Heartbeat Bills
Would you take your daughter there,
the unholiest there you guess
you could go?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Praise, reverence and serve the God of coronavirus
You are called to become obedient enough to serve the God who invites you to do seemingly very little. The God who himself apparently does nothing as the disease spreads.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Tiny scriptures of truth: America’s 2019 poetry roundup
New American poetry that spans the globe.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The 2019 Foley poetry contest: Metaphors so simple and clear
Entrants to this year’s contest included poems about human trafficking, the Mueller Report, priestly abuse and screen addiction.