Self-denial is a kind of training. What we are aiming for is the spiritual athleticism that equips us to meet the demands that will come.

Baseball didn’t fall from the sky. It is a gift, made by humans. It is exciting. It could disappear.

In these difficult times, priests and their lay collaborators in Jesuit ministries across the United States are offering spiritual consolation in the form of live-streaming liturgical services.

What if each and every priest acknowledged the pain and devastation this scandal has caused?

In the middle lands of these 40 days, I am burdened by the fact that our society has not yet reckoned with the ongoing sin of capital punishment nor the full extent of our country’s racist past.

Pope Francis is calling us all to consider Mary not as an abstract helper but as a mother who has a proven track record of healing, protecting and watching over her people.