The fundamental insight of the synod was not only that attentive listening was helpful in decision making, but also that the Holy Spirit was at work in everyone.

After Barack Obama’s victory in 2008, the Democrats have repeatedly failed to hold together the coalition that elected the country’s first Black president.

“We wish him much wisdom,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said about Donald J. Trump, the day after he was elected as the 47th president of the United States of America.

In this episode of “Preach,” Tom Massaro, S.J., joins Ricardo da Silva, S.J. to discuss how preachers can adopt the perspective of the underdog, humbly striving to build bridges between people who come to Church with opposing viewpoints. 

“The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” presents the internet as a place where true connection is possible and limitations can be transcended.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Bishop Robert Barron and Bishop Daniel Flores talk with Gloria Purvis about their roles as shepherds in their dioceses and the U.S. church in an election year.

Gloria Purvis and Sam Sawyer, S.J., discuss the Catholic imperative to form and obey one’s conscience, especially around two key voting issues: abortion and racism.

If my students remain true to the values of our Jesuit institution, but more importantly their identities as children of God, then I believe they can handle whatever our election season may bring.

A ‘Jesuitical’ conversation with Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter about the ways the synod is (and isn’t) taking root in the U.S. church

Advice from a Jesuit psychologist in training