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What would Jesus do about Artificial Intelligence? Become more human.
It is not technology we should fear. It is ourselves.
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A Jesuit on El Camino with The New York Times
Tuesday, May 4, was our first walk, a 10-mile, six-hour march with a band of 23 men and women.
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Can you be a Catholic and a yogi?
These two ways, of Christ and Patanjali, have helped me be more at peace and be kinder to myself.
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Can the Feast of San Gennaro hold on to its Catholic and Italian roots?
“People come here because they are hungry, but they don’t know that they’re hungry for God.”
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I became a priest 50 years ago. Here’s how the perception of priesthood has changed
We have seen an epochal change in the image of a Catholic priest in North America.
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What two saints and a pope named Francis can teach us about living the Gospel online
Putting Francis of Assisi, Francis de Sales, and Pope Francis in conversation.
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Sad, tired and angry: A prayer in the face of gun violence
I am sad over the loss of life, tired of excuses for the loss of life, and angry that we are paralyzed by the loss of life.
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I knew miscarriages were sad—but nothing could prepare us for the experience.
I struggle with how to think of this little being whose life outside the womb was not to be.
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Yes, millennials like brunch. But that’s not why they’re skipping Mass.
Wriggly children are not the only reason my fellow millennials are missing from the pews.