Jesuit School Spotlight
How an 11-month school year and 10-hour days help prepare boys in Phoenix to be men for others
Loyola Academy at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix is a program for incoming sixth grade boys who demonstrate academic gifts and financial need.
Of Many Things
The contradictions of Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview
Everyone has a family that involves some painful history, and few of us would want to tell Oprah and the whole world about it.
Your Take
Your Take: Lessons from a year of pandemic and women in parish ministry
‘The availability of online church is a mixed blessing.’
Editorials
The Editors: Our long Lent is far from over—but signs of Easter are everywhere
Easter reminds the faithful of our obligation to maintain hope in the darkest of times.
Short Take
The Equality Act’s implications for abortion would be devastating for pregnant women in the workplace
By requiring abortion to be funded by states and covered by insurers as “health care,” the Equality Act would only further incentivize employers to prefer abortion for their pregnant employees over far more costly accommodations for parenting.
Dispatches
Infographic: Covid-19 takes a toll on Catholic school enrollment
The sharpest enrollment decline was for prekindergarten enrollment at Catholic schools, which was down almost 27 percent.
Catholics in Quebec are leaving the church in droves. Can reinventing parish life save it?
“A prophetic church like [the one sought by Pope Francis], highlighting social justice and solidarity with the destitute and the persecuted, has the potential of closing the chasm between the church and the modern, secular culture of Quebec.”
Nigeria’s Catholic priests are in fear for their lives after a slew of kidnappings and attacks
The growing attacks on priests and their ministries has left many living in fear. “The security situation is not just bad; it is extremely so,” said Father Bassey. “You want to hurry to get back home; you don’t want to be in a lonely place; you can’t step out and take a stroll.
Catholic schools are facing the biggest enrollment drop in 50 years. This one is bucking the trend.
Catholic school enrollment dropped by 111,000 last year. But at St. Joseph, a small Catholic school in Anderson, S.C., the student body has nearly doubled.
GoodNews
New Orleans Archdiocese revises its response to sexual abuse allegations
“There’s no need for us to be at odds,” Archbishop Aymond said of the relationship between the archdiocese and SNAP. “We want the same thing, and reconciliation has happened.”
Features
Priests and lay women work together every day. The church is finally starting to train them together, too.
The human formation provided in integrated formation models for the priesthood results not only in healthier, more well-rounded priests but also helps advance the vision of Vatican II.
After Covid, Mass will never be the same. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Many Catholics have found themselves connected to parish communities in ways that previously were impossible.
Faith and Reason
Privacy is the virtue that Americans love the most and understand the least
While we seem to take privacy seriously as a culture, in reality we allow unfettered access to our personal information in countless ways.
Faith in Focus
My therapist was not a savior. But she was the faithful witness to my pain and resurrection.
I am alive because a woman spent years watching me emerge from the dead and refused to be afraid.
What I learned while praying in the (empty) Garden of Gethsemane during Lent
In this year, with the pilgrims gone and the holy places nearly empty, I set out to spend some time on the Mount of Olives to see what I can learn from the ancient trees.
Ideas
Meet your bicycle: the transportation incarnation of Catholic Social Teaching.
Bicycles are theologically sound. Ask Pope Francis.
Books
Review: The voices of the marginalized tell us the most about privilege
Capitalism, consumption, and their (im)moral undercurrents are the subjects of Eula Biss’s new collection of essays.
Review: A baseball pilgrimage of spirituality, fatherhood and flawed humanity
Most of the players Brad Balukjian met struggled with the shock of having to leave the game.
Review: The holy challenge of living in bodies that are both material and mystical
Sinead Gleeson’s body shapes—molded by leukemia, a hip replacement, complicated childbirths—provide the most fully realized essays in ‘Constellations.’
Pope Francis and the dehumanizing nature of contemporary economies
Two recent books by Benjamin McKean and Vincent Bevins show the violence done to developing countries in the name of economic prosperity and U.S. political hegemony.
Review: Paul Farmer went to Africa to fight Ebola. He found a people devastated by war and racism.
Paul Farmer’s new book explores his work with others in West Africa. Farmer and his team went there to respond to the longest and largest Ebola epidemic in recorded history.
Poetry
Death of Metaphor
If Metaphor had held through Crucifixion, I, too, would have had my eighty years
chicks
where one goes all follow
The Word
The spirit propels Christianity forward
Jesus emphasizes the selflessness of the shepherd, insisting that he volunteers to protect his flock.
The Gospel is meant to be preached. It’s our responsibility to do it.
Jesus teaches the apostles by opening their minds to understand the Scriptures.
God calls us to redistribute not just wealth but mercy too
Divine Mercy Sunday reminds us to pray for God’s compassion and forgiveness and to afford the same to one another.
Jesus is risen, exclusion is dead.
The reactions of the early Christian witnesses are a mixture of fear, faith, confusion and understanding.
Last Take
Catholics and Muslims: Who is really better at fasting and prayer?
A Catholic comedian explains Lent, Ramadan and the ways we prove our piety.
Faith
The spirit propels Christianity forward
Jesus emphasizes the selflessness of the shepherd, insisting that he volunteers to protect his flock.
The Gospel is meant to be preached. It’s our responsibility to do it.
Jesus teaches the apostles by opening their minds to understand the Scriptures.
God calls us to redistribute not just wealth but mercy too
Divine Mercy Sunday reminds us to pray for God’s compassion and forgiveness and to afford the same to one another.
Jesus is risen, exclusion is dead.
The reactions of the early Christian witnesses are a mixture of fear, faith, confusion and understanding.
My therapist was not a savior. But she was the faithful witness to my pain and resurrection.
I am alive because a woman spent years watching me emerge from the dead and refused to be afraid.
What I learned while praying in the (empty) Garden of Gethsemane during Lent
In this year, with the pilgrims gone and the holy places nearly empty, I set out to spend some time on the Mount of Olives to see what I can learn from the ancient trees.
Privacy is the virtue that Americans love the most and understand the least
While we seem to take privacy seriously as a culture, in reality we allow unfettered access to our personal information in countless ways.
Priests and lay women work together every day. The church is finally starting to train them together, too.
The human formation provided in integrated formation models for the priesthood results not only in healthier, more well-rounded priests but also helps advance the vision of Vatican II.
New Orleans Archdiocese revises its response to sexual abuse allegations
“There’s no need for us to be at odds,” Archbishop Aymond said of the relationship between the archdiocese and SNAP. “We want the same thing, and reconciliation has happened.”
How an 11-month school year and 10-hour days help prepare boys in Phoenix to be men for others
Loyola Academy at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix is a program for incoming sixth grade boys who demonstrate academic gifts and financial need.
After Covid, Mass will never be the same. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Many Catholics have found themselves connected to parish communities in ways that previously were impossible.
Catholic schools are facing the biggest enrollment drop in 50 years. This one is bucking the trend.
Catholic school enrollment dropped by 111,000 last year. But at St. Joseph, a small Catholic school in Anderson, S.C., the student body has nearly doubled.
Catholics and Muslims: Who is really better at fasting and prayer?
A Catholic comedian explains Lent, Ramadan and the ways we prove our piety.
Politics
Faith
Culture
Vatican
Scripture
Podcasts