A Reflection for Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J.
Joe Hoover, S.J., is America’s poetry editor and producer of a new film, “The Allegory.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Building a world and inviting us in: the 2023 Foley poetry contest
I am grateful for all the poets who submitted their work for the contest. Every year we get poems from all over the United States, and even across the world, about any number of topics.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My Corona Diary, by Thomas Carthusia
Writing this marginally insane diary was a reminder to me that, no matter what disasters strike us, and no matter what destruction they wreak, we can at least find ways to diminish their soul-destroying power. We can at least laugh.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
How diverse should the early church be?
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
There is no civil war in the Catholic Church
There is no civil war in the Catholic Church, there is only Almighty God sifting us like wheat. There is no schism ahead, only the proper ordering of us into the right places for the salvation of our souls.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Tucker Carlson’s racist text message—and the painful confession it contains
The rest of Tucker Carlson’s racist text betrayed a self-confessional Tucker Carlson I can begin to identify with.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Why America magazine still publishes poetry
The poetry of Amit Majmudar, whom America has published 10 times in the past few years, moves easily between the mystical and the ordinary, the one rooted in the other.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The secular scripture of ‘Deep Work’ and ‘Atomic Habits’: Making the most of the time God gives us
The best “time maximizing” methods can lead us to a space where God can maximize our souls and inhabit everything we do.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Jesus uses anything to get his point across—even a fish
A Reflection for Thursday in the Octave of Easter, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Thus says the Lord
A Reflection for Thursday of the Second Week in Lent, by Joe Hoover, S.J.