Women show their health passes to a waiter in Paris on Aug. 19, 2021. France, Italy, Denmark and the U.S. cities of New York, San Francisco and New Orleans are among the places that have imposed vaccination requirements at places like restaurants, gyms and theaters as the Delta variant of Covid-19 spreads. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)

Three spiritual exercises for facing a long future with Covid-19

by Jim McDermott August 20, 2021

It can be dispiriting, even infuriating, to imagine our future with Covid-19. Spiritual exercises inspired by Ignatius can help us become more aware and move past our anger.

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We must share our memories of 9/11, no matter how difficult they are to communicate

by James Martin, S.J. August 20, 2021

How do we communicate what it was like to live that day to people who were not yet born?

But this Christ, son of Nazareth, king of the Jews, is asking God why he has been forsaken. His face is upturned, mouth open, his body rebelling against its wooden constraints, wracked by human suffering.

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What my students have taught me about suffering

by Mattie Denzer-King August 20, 2021April 10, 2026

I don’t understand why some of my students are allowed to suffer as he did. But the knowledge of Christ’s death stanches my anger long enough that I am able to entertain the idea that there is still a point to serving this God.

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I am a queer Catholic. When will the church feel like home?

by Grace Doerfler August 13, 2021

I want to belong to a church that is willing to see my L.G.B.T.Q. siblings and me as just like straight and cisgender Catholics in our striving to follow Jesus. Can Catholic church leaders stand in my shoes?

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The Assumption of Mary brought me peace after my mother’s death

by Patricia Lawler Kenet August 13, 2021

I am told that at the last moment, my mother sat up, looked towards heaven and fell back to her pillow. I chose to believe Mary came to her, took her and is with her still.

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Is your smartphone making you sin more? Consider a technological examination of conscience.

by Jim McDermott August 4, 2021

Summer is a good season to take stock of how our dependence on technology can change us. Here are seven steps for seeing your smartphone more clearly.