Jesuit School Spotlight
‘I realized that it was my purpose to help others’: How Jesuit values led one Cristo Rey alum to fight for health equity
An interview with Miguel Blancarte Jr., a graduate of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, Ill., and now the director of Covid-19 Response and Community Outreach at Esperanza Health Centers.
The Moral Economy
Nursing homes were broken long before Covid-19
We live in the age of the aging, and our capitalist economy is struggling to cope.
Of Many Things
What we can learn from Prince Philip’s extraordinary life
Prince Philip once described himself as “a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction.” Self-deprecation, of course, was one of his famous traits. But there were others, which point to some of the lessons to be gleaned from his extraordinary life.
Your Take
Tell us: Are you going back to Mass yet? Why or why not?
Whether your answer is yes or no, what has gone into your discernment?
Editorials
The Editors: Is it time for the U.S. to hold a plenary council?
What if we followed the example of the bishops of Germany, Australia, Ireland and elsewhere and called for a regional gathering of Catholics—from all corners of the local church—to discuss the flaws and future of evangelization?
Short Take
Purity culture, racism and the violence against Asian women in Atlanta
The fatal attack on Asian women in Atlanta was foreseeable, writes Flora x. Tang. It was the product of ideologies that relegate women as the source of blame for men’s desire.
Dispatches
The current minimum wage is not just, according to the Catholic church. $15 wouldn’t be either.
After adjusting for rising costs of living, a full-time federal minimum wage worker today earns 18 percent less than what her counterpart earned 11 years ago—$15,080 annually in 2021, compared with $18,458 in 2009.
Delays, corruption and misinformation thwart Covid-19 vaccination efforts across Amazon region
Covid-19 immunization campaigns must overcome enormous difficulties in reaching remote indigenous groups, isolated riverside communities and the villages of quilombola people, the descendants of African slaves.
The Jesuits have pledged to raise $100 million to advance racial healing. But reconciliation is about more than money.
The collaboration with the Jesuits addresses a specific historical injustice but more broadly seeks to offer a model that might accelerate racial healing and advance racial justice in the United States.
Who is Father Stan Swamy, the Jesuit priest (still) sitting in an Indian prison?
Jesuit priest Stan Swamy remains incarcerated in Mumbai after a judge denied his bail request. Father Swamy’s arrest almost six months ago followed a two-year-long period of interrogation, raids of his home and seizure of his personal property, including electronic communications devices.
The former gang member who negotiated a truce in Mexico’s third largest city
The gang truce in Querétaro was modeled after a similar pact among dozens of gangs in Monterrey. A nonprofit called Nacidos Para Triunfar played a crucial role in bringing gang members and civic authorities together.
Features
Our society has had a near-death experience. Will we emerge from it ready to live fully?
Let us add direction and purpose to our resolve, and let us give ourselves some magis-inspired goals.
There’s more than one way to be a Catholic feminist
Even within the United States, the Catholic Church encompasses countless subcultures, which send very different messages to young women about femininity, family life, marriage and careers.
Faith and Reason
We need to talk: healing our deeply divided church and country.
The divisions in our country are deep on issues like racism and economic inequality, as well as on education, cultural values and lifestyles. Likewise, our church is divided. What are communicators to do in the face of these divisions?
Faith in Focus
What the conversion of St. Ignatius can teach us 500 years later
The miracle is to believe that for those, like Ignatius, who believe in God and trust in God’s care and providence, there is no accident, no tragedy or failure that they cannot overcome.
How the women of the Bible helped me reimagine my barrenness
Discovering that a pivotal figure like Esther, who saves her people from death, also happens to be childless, can help us understand that childlessness in Scripture cannot be understood only as a curse.
Books
‘Shuggie Bain’ is a novel of queer, working-class, Irish Catholic life
Douglas Stuart’s novel is an appropriate winner of the Booker Prize for the desolate year in which March seems never to have ended.
Mary Gordon’s new novel candidly portrays abuse and revenge
The veteran novelist has an esteemed track record of finely crafted stories that explore the human propensity to sow injury rather than beneficence.
Review: Ecotheological river poetry and the funk-loving Jesus of the Deep South
In the poems of ‘Delta Tears,’ Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.
Review: Never forget the suffering and injustice of the gulag
Julius Margolin’s memoir of his time in the gulag tells his experiences through a shattering series of stories.
Review: Platitudes are not enough. We need to see criminal justice reform in action.
Reuben Jonathan Miller’s new book cuts through the noise about criminal justice reform to lay bare what life is really like on the other side of a prison sentence.
Film
Like saints and poets, Frederick Wiseman looks at life moment by moment
Frederick Wiseman’s patient, deliberate lens into everyday life reveals glory in the mundane.
The Word
St. Elizabeth’s mystical encounter with the Trinity can inspire us, too.
We are encouraged to encounter God in our lives and share those experiences with others through our words and actions.
Want to be inspired? Listen for the Holy Spirit.
We remember the important role of the Spirit in guiding and sustaining faith after Jesus’ resurrection.
Jesus had a vision for his disciples. He prayed for it to become reality.
Jesus’ final prayer implores the disciples to be confident that he has assured their care.
How should we love one another? It’s called agape.
By working to end hate and division, we show our love for one another.
Bold speech must be followed by bold action
Jesus asks the Father in heaven for protection for the disciples, which reveals the perils of discipleship.
Last Take
Catholics owe Marty Baron a debt of gratitude. He told us the truth about the clerical sex abuse crisis.
An outsider in parochial Boston not beholden to ties of kin and culture, Mr. Baron greenlighted an expensive and difficult investigation.
Faith
St. Elizabeth’s mystical encounter with the Trinity can inspire us, too.
We are encouraged to encounter God in our lives and share those experiences with others through our words and actions.
Want to be inspired? Listen for the Holy Spirit.
We remember the important role of the Spirit in guiding and sustaining faith after Jesus’ resurrection.
Jesus had a vision for his disciples. He prayed for it to become reality.
Jesus’ final prayer implores the disciples to be confident that he has assured their care.
How should we love one another? It’s called agape.
By working to end hate and division, we show our love for one another.
Bold speech must be followed by bold action
Jesus asks the Father in heaven for protection for the disciples, which reveals the perils of discipleship.
‘I realized that it was my purpose to help others’: How Jesuit values led one Cristo Rey alum to fight for health equity
An interview with Miguel Blancarte Jr., a graduate of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago, Ill., and now the director of Covid-19 Response and Community Outreach at Esperanza Health Centers.
What the conversion of St. Ignatius can teach us 500 years later
The miracle is to believe that for those, like Ignatius, who believe in God and trust in God’s care and providence, there is no accident, no tragedy or failure that they cannot overcome.
How the women of the Bible helped me reimagine my barrenness
Discovering that a pivotal figure like Esther, who saves her people from death, also happens to be childless, can help us understand that childlessness in Scripture cannot be understood only as a curse.
Our society has had a near-death experience. Will we emerge from it ready to live fully?
Let us add direction and purpose to our resolve, and let us give ourselves some magis-inspired goals.
We need to talk: healing our deeply divided church and country.
The divisions in our country are deep on issues like racism and economic inequality, as well as on education, cultural values and lifestyles. Likewise, our church is divided. What are communicators to do in the face of these divisions?
What we can learn from Prince Philip’s extraordinary life
Prince Philip once described himself as “a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction.” Self-deprecation, of course, was one of his famous traits. But there were others, which point to some of the lessons to be gleaned from his extraordinary life.
Tell us: Are you going back to Mass yet? Why or why not?
Whether your answer is yes or no, what has gone into your discernment?
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