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.
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Who is Pope Leo? | 5 surprising things I learned while reporting on Robert Prevost
Although I had set out to answer the question, “Who is Pope Leo XIV?” the question I had succeeded in answering was “Who is Robert Prevost?”
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The Sacred Gift of Summer Camp on Texas’s Guadalupe River
Over 20 years ago, I was a college student who didn’t want to return to an unstable home. So instead, I found a job as a lifeguard at a Christian summer camp in the Texas Hill Country.
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Why we tell our stories
We tell stories not so much in order to live but to live in a world made more loving and compassionate because of us.
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The Catholic nun who brought faith and social justice to New York’s airwaves for over 50 years
Sister Camille D’Arienzo “didn’t toe the line. She said what she believed. She is a progressive woman who had a very big pulpit, which was over three million listeners a week.”