Brendan Hodge’s debut novel ‘If You Can Get It’ centers on two young women seeking meaning along the axes of work, love and faith.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Features
The Catholic Women Who Write Your Favorite TV Shows
“My hope is that the church can use the immense power of its storytelling to move toward more compassion, more kindness.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The crux of religious belief: Walter Miller Jr.’s ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz’
Parsing the pros and cons of ‘A Canticle for Leibowitz,’ the latest selection of the Catholic Book Club.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New poll: QAnon embraced by 11 percent of white Catholics and 15 percent of all Americans
According to a new P.R.R.I.-I.F.Y.C poll, 15 percent of U.S. adults—including 16 percent of Hispanic Catholics and 11 percent of white Catholics—agree with a core belief of the QAnon movement.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The rituals of a Brooklyn Catholic community
‘Lifeblood of the Parish’ is an ethnographic look at Italian-American communal rituals in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
From 1990: Will there be Catholic theology in the United States?
The Rev. Matthew Lamb argues that if the education of theologians is the foundation of Catholic education, hiring trends in Catholic universities suggest an ongoing “Protestantization” of religious education at Catholic colleges and universities.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Gloria Purvis: ‘I’m not a conservative. I’m not a liberal. I’m just Catholic.’
When people meet me, at the Capitol or in a church, they may wonder or even ask me politely, “Are you a conservative or a liberal?” I smile and say, “I’m just a Catholic.”
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
What a Jewish editor brings to a Catholic podcast
This week, Zac and Ashley take you behind the scenes of Jesuitical in an exit interview with our amazing outgoing editor, Noah Levinson.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Did going to therapy challenge my faith? Yes. Did it make it stronger? Also yes.
I had to accept that it’s possible that there is no God. Or that there is, but he is a stranger. Instead of choosing to trust the church because trust was where I wanted to be, I deliberately stepped out, off the safety of the shore, into doubt.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Why do white Catholics have such a high vaccination rate? Is it faith or education?
About two-thirds of white U.S. Catholics are accepting of the Covid vaccine—a higher rate than any religious group other than Jews. But it is unclear whether the high vaccination rate is a matter of faith or of demographics.