Faith in Focus

I know a Jesuit whose father worked at the same company for 56 years. A friend and mentor just retired after 35 years at the same company, and my father has only recently begun to decelerate after practicing orthopedic surgery for almost 40 years.I am 33. After graduating from college

Raymond A. Scroth, S.J., on finding his vocation in uniform

Finding grace and new growth at Christmas

Each day after her mother’s fall had its attendant rituals, including an offering of key lime pie.

‘I can no longer cope with the loneliness. At this point the future could not look any blacker…. I kept thinking I could work my way out of this horrible depression that grips me, but I can’t do it. Please forgive me if I have hurt you….”Minutes after writing these words, my mo

One man’s jouney from death row to a new life

Thinking with the church in El Salvador

When we left Virginia a year ago for Northern Michigan—driving 19 hours with two kids and two cats—I vowed I would never pack a box again. My husband and I are academics, but we must rival military families and missionaries in frequency of relocation. I have lost count of our moves.We li

Life and death after Typhoon Haiyan

I was a seminarian in Rome when Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was elected Pope John XXIII. More than five decades later, I found myself in Rome once more, on April 27, at the canonization ceremony that celebrated Pope John’s holy life, as well as that of Pope John Paul II. I was one of 800 priests