One Jesuit’s encounter with a cop, a cat and several fellow Catholics in search of a connection to the first American pontiff.
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How often should a Catholic receive Communion?
It depends what century it is.
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I was lost after my friend’s death. With St. Augustine’s help, God found me.
After a reckless driver took the life of my friend Peyton, I stopped praying altogether—not out of anger, but because I had lost my voice.
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Rekindling my Catholic faith in the ‘fourth quarter’ of life
Perhaps it is the hard-won wisdom that comes with age, but the Catholic rituals and practices I once scorned are the same rituals and practices that now usher me into God’s presence, time and time again.
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Celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius in the shadow of war in Gaza
In these dark times, surrounded by death and destruction in Gaza, we hear the command in the first reading, “Choose life.” What are the ways we can do this in a world that seems to have gone mad?
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Praying for strangers—even online—is a transformative spiritual practice
We need to pray for the person whose real identity and full story we do not know. Because that is everyone.
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A trauma-informed guide to prayer
Trauma-informed spirituality knows better than to promise that prayer will take away all the pain. But it can offer the hope that, even in the midst of pain, there can be moments of feeling whole.
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A Jesuit guide to aging and retirement
You’ve got a 401K. But do you have a spiritual retirement plan?
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What we saw during an ICE arrest and immigration court hearing: the breakdown of justice in America
What is happening to migrants in courtrooms across the country is a complete embarrassment to the justice system and an affront to human dignity.
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My two vocations: priest and poet
My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very significantly, it is the expression of my prayer at this later time of my life.