A Reflection for Monday of the Twenty-eighth 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.”
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Accepting the suffering we cannot change
A Reflection for Saturday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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What great actors can teach us about openness to Christ
A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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For Jesuits (and everyone else), the people you live with can be the hardest to serve. But that’s what we’re called to do.
Members of the Society of Jesus have been called in recent years to see as mission territory not just our works out in the world, but the very communities in which we live.
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How Jesus defends Mary and converts Martha
A Reflection for Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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One Jesuit’s pilgrimage home—and the lessons he learned about peace
A Reflection for Thursday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.
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Who is more judgmental: Planet Fitness or the Catholic Church?
The fact is, no one—no church or priest, friendly gym or unfriendly one—can judge us without our cooperation.
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Many libraries are ending late fees. They’re showing us an unexpected mercy.
In San Diego and Boston, in Burbank and Chicago and Orange Beach, Ala., libraries all over the country have been ending the dispensing of fines for overdue books.
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‘Ted Lasso’ and ‘Fleabag’ and all the shows that are too awesome to watch (so I won’t)
My heart is not large enough, my consciousness is not spacious enough for all the spot-on characters, the hectic energies, the ripping stories. I am not skillful, I think, at TV.
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The 2022 Foley Contest: Poetry that speaks the unspeakable about the tragedy in Ukraine
We include fragments of poems that, while not contest finalists, provide one more way for America to shine a light on the ongoing horror in Ukraine.