Of Many Things
Columbus Day is a chance to acknowledge a nuanced history in a polarized world
What exactly are we celebrating on Columbus Day?
Your Take
If you could canonize anyone, living or dead, Catholic or not, who would it be?
Listeners of Jesuitical offer their own answer to the podcast’s recurring question.
Editorials
The Editors: Trump has betrayed the Kurds—and hurt U.S. credibility abroad
Mr. Trump’s turnabout is bad for the Kurds, bad for the campaign against ISIS and bad for whatever still remains of the nation’s international credibility.
Trump is stonewalling Congress. The House should respond with a formal impeachment inquiry vote.
While enough facts are still unknown that a decision on impeachment itself is premature, an inquiry is absolutely necessary, the editors write.
Short Take
Democrats show carelessness with resolution on ‘religiously unaffiliated’
The Democratic National Committee got played, writes Michael Wear, when it passed a resolution celebrating the “religiously unaffiliated” and casting aspersions on those of faith.
Dispatches
Sainthood picks up the pace under recent popes
John Paul II canonized more saints (482) than the popes from the previous 500 years combined, and Pope Francis is more than keeping up.
Here’s what happened on day four of the Amazon Synod.
On day four of the synod, the small language groups have begun to meet, signaling the moment in the synod process when “in a synodal way, everyone gives their contribution.”
Why Catholic bishops in Europe are concerned about the rise of ‘nature burials’
“These options are in no way Christian: to anonymously scatter ashes in nature, air or water; to install an urn in a private home or apartment; to bury remains in a private garden; or to divide ashes into multiple ‘remembrance objects,’” the bishops wrote, also criticizing the trend to convert loved ones’ ashes into jewelry.
How Jesuits in South America are working to promote an ‘Amazon-like’ church
His work is increasingly to support what synod organizers call creating a more “Amazon-like” church. A more Amazon-like church incorporates the customs and sensibilities of the local population, like indigenous spirituality, and promotes new forms of evangelization.
GoodNews
How one Catholic group is fighting for justice in Nigeria’s troubled prison system
For nearly two decades, Nigeria has been struggling to reform its congested prison system. Courts grapple with huge backlogs of cases, compounding delays in the delivery of justice and contributing to prison overcrowding.
Features
What the Day of the Dead can teach us about life
Darkness and light are but one, the psalmist tells us. Our lives are filled with both. Sugar and skulls. Flowers and dust. Love and loss. You cannot embrace one without allowing the other.
How immigration affects the three Americas
Both the church and the nation will steadily shrink without newcomers from beyond our national borders. But there are big differences in how immigration plays out in different parts of the U.S.
Faith in Focus
When my husband filed for divorce, I was shamed for staying faithful to our vows
Some say I have brought suffering on myself by standing up for the promises I made at the altar. In a sense that is true. But the alternative would have been to betray myself.
Malcolm Gladwell talks casuistry and Catholicism with the hosts of Jesuitical
Malcolm Gladwell joins the hosts of Jesuitical for a conversation about his experience in thinking like a Jesuit.
Ideas
What angels can teach us about being human
In ‘Wings of Desire,’ Damiel is tired of pretense, tired of spending eternity as a pure spirit.
Books
Review: Can you be a woman of both faith and feminism?
‘This is My Body,’ by Cameron Dezen Hammon, is a warning about how a feminist can fall prey to and rationalize the pervasiveness of misogyny, despite his or her best intentions.
Review: Modern saint-making reflects contemporary Catholic identity
As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.
On the road with Wendell Berry
The natural world is Wendell Berry’s primary teacher: its rhythms, its largesse, its mysteries.
Review: A new novel offers a look into the lives of Dominican immigrants
“Dominicana” tells the story of 15-year-old Ana Canción.
Television
‘American Factory’ review: Made in America (by the Chinese)
The Netflix film offers a stunning degree of intimacy through the startup of a factory once run by General Motors.
Theater
Review: ‘Slave Play’ grapples with a poisonous legacy
In his sensational new play, Jeremy O. Harris posits that racism may poison our most intimate relationships.
Poetry
Respiration
This year I’ll feel the light of the tomb on my own bones
The Word
Sharing God’s love in unexpected places
Christ’s disciples must continue to seek out the company of sinners, even great sinners, for many of these are on the threshold of conversion
Do we live every day secure in the knowledge of the resurrection?
Jesus teaches in this Sunday’s Gospel that every one of us lives a life of eternal consequence.
Last Take
‘There will be fireworks for her’: Tania Tetlow on Cokie Roberts
Tania Tetlow, president of Loyola University New Orleans, remembers her friend and mentor Cokie Roberts, who passed away on Sept. 17.
Faith
If you could canonize anyone, living or dead, Catholic or not, who would it be?
Listeners of Jesuitical offer their own answer to the podcast’s recurring question.
What the Day of the Dead can teach us about life
Darkness and light are but one, the psalmist tells us. Our lives are filled with both. Sugar and skulls. Flowers and dust. Love and loss. You cannot embrace one without allowing the other.
Sainthood picks up the pace under recent popes
John Paul II canonized more saints (482) than the popes from the previous 500 years combined, and Pope Francis is more than keeping up.
Sharing God’s love in unexpected places
Christ’s disciples must continue to seek out the company of sinners, even great sinners, for many of these are on the threshold of conversion
Do we live every day secure in the knowledge of the resurrection?
Jesus teaches in this Sunday’s Gospel that every one of us lives a life of eternal consequence.
Here’s what happened on day four of the Amazon Synod.
On day four of the synod, the small language groups have begun to meet, signaling the moment in the synod process when “in a synodal way, everyone gives their contribution.”
When my husband filed for divorce, I was shamed for staying faithful to our vows
Some say I have brought suffering on myself by standing up for the promises I made at the altar. In a sense that is true. But the alternative would have been to betray myself.
Why Catholic bishops in Europe are concerned about the rise of ‘nature burials’
“These options are in no way Christian: to anonymously scatter ashes in nature, air or water; to install an urn in a private home or apartment; to bury remains in a private garden; or to divide ashes into multiple ‘remembrance objects,’” the bishops wrote, also criticizing the trend to convert loved ones’ ashes into jewelry.
How Jesuits in South America are working to promote an ‘Amazon-like’ church
His work is increasingly to support what synod organizers call creating a more “Amazon-like” church. A more Amazon-like church incorporates the customs and sensibilities of the local population, like indigenous spirituality, and promotes new forms of evangelization.
Malcolm Gladwell talks casuistry and Catholicism with the hosts of Jesuitical
Malcolm Gladwell joins the hosts of Jesuitical for a conversation about his experience in thinking like a Jesuit.
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