The film is so hard, so painful and so truthful. There is barely a false note to be found.
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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Fasting for peace in Gaza: What Pope Leo’s call really means
I can’t will myself into a spiritual experience, into a sense of solidarity or meaning or nobility or deep and somber union with God and man. I can will myself into doing regular daily things and recording them and seeing what comes of it all.
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Marketing with Christian humility—or trying to
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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A pilgrimage to Pope Leo’s childhood home
One Jesuit’s encounter with a cop, a cat and several fellow Catholics in search of a connection to the first American pontiff.
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We are kept alive by sowers
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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God can spin something great out of pain and wrongdoing
A Reflection for Thursday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Pope Leo, the Chicago White Sox and ‘No Kings’ Trump protests: a dispatch and meditation
As Chicago’s “No Kings” protests against President Trump wound down Saturday afternoon, the celebration of Pope Leo at White Sox stadium began. Which made me wonder: Does one impact the other?
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The 2025 Foley poetry contest: Lyric questions about grief
These are poems that grip your heart, stretch your mind and startle your soul awake.
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To each according to need
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Wherever we go, God will be there
A Reflection for Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.