Men and women siting on large wheels in the desert at sunset at the Burning Man festival

Sex, drugs and God at Burning Man

by Bryan McCarthy February 17, 2023

For someone with the right ears and eyes, Burning Man provides opportunities to become more engaged and more intentional in faith.

Arts & Culture, Interviews

The Irish priest who outwitted the Nazis

by Maurice Timothy Reidy February 17, 2023

My Father’s House centers on Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, a real life Irish priest who, with the help of an electic group of accomplices, helped shuttle escaped prisoners of war captives to safety.

three ai images of Jesus with disciples as described in the article

Art, Arts & Culture

I asked an AI art generator to draw the communion of saints. I don’t love what it revealed about the Catholic Church.

by Jim McDermott February 17, 2023

What does A.I. paint as the communion of saints? And what does that say about how we have taught it to visualize the saints?

Arts & Culture, Podcasts

Podcast: Finding God in hip-hop and liberation theology

by Jesuitical February 17, 2023

Catholics probably won’t hear hip-hop at Mass anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the genre doesn’t have a lot to say about God and the plight of God’s people.

Arts & Culture, Poetry

Good Friday

by Tamara Nicholl-Smith February 16, 2023

It’s time to strip
the altar. Time to hollow

Arts & Culture, Poetry

Holy Thursday

by Jasmine Marshall Armstrong February 16, 2023

I can sit at your
feet, and feel the troubled
waters of my body
still

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: A Jesuit cardinal in Roman high society

by Benjamin Ivry February 16, 2023

A new collective tribute by a baker’s dozen of erudite specialists adds up to an erudite, if in some parts abstruse, overview of the remarkable life and ecclesiastic career of Cardinal Sforza Pallavicino.

Arts & Culture, Books

Review: James Lee Burke on a paradise lost

by Mike Mastromatteo February 16, 2023

In ‘Another Kind of Eden,’ James Lee Burke offers literary speculations on the presence of evil in a fallen world—a post-Eden existence that nonetheless makes occasional stabs at goodness and light.