Maybe the reformed hearts at the Eucharistic Congress will leave Indianapolis with a new attitude when faced with signs like “Deport Them All.”
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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Eucharistic Diary: The Eucharistic Congress is moving in a way I did not expect.
I cannot tell you exactly why I am getting emotional, except to say that maybe I am sorely in the mood for something simple and nonaffected and happy and endearing and guileless. (Maybe everyone is?)
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I tried making sense of Pope Francis’ offensive remarks. I discovered something deeper instead.
I am always going to be let down by humans, but never by the One who is fully human and fully divine.
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To give up everything and follow Jesus, we need to be spiritually free
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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The 2024 Foley poetry contest: art that pierces and disrupts
Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.
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Religious brothers and workers’ rights: A surprising May Day connection
Jesuit brothers of the world, unite!
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Paul’s murderous threats
A Reflection for Friday of the Third Week of Easter, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Spring poetry roundup: Mini catechisms in verse
In one way or another, these collections bear the traces of the divine, of the needful Christ.
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I find ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ hard to accept. Maybe that’s the point.
Amid all the wrestling with theology we do, maybe our job is also to notice what is being done to us. To behold the way God uses vexing things like conflict in the church to work on us, to purify us.
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In defense of the ‘He Gets Us’ Super Bowl ads
Maybe the real message of this ad should be not that “God Gets Us” but that “We Don’t Get God.”