Can poetry matter? Yes. Can the Catholic writer today matter? Of course. But it is instructive that Gioia’s essay and book title does not ask the latter question.
Catholic Identity
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Graduate students at Catholic universities need faith formation, too
There are now a large number of graduate students in Catholic higher education, and few of them encounter anything substantive in regards to faith formation, religious meaning-making or the role of spirituality in their lives.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
The complicated history of AIDS and the Catholic Church
The story of Catholics and the AIDS epidemic in the United States is often told as one of “gays versus the church.” But the reality was much more complicated.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
A practical guide to discernment (Hint: just be yourself)
Father George Elliot discusses his latest book on vocational discernment and the power of prayer in determining God’s will.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How my Catholic identity has been challenged—and enriched—by social justice
Christianity is not a collection of abstract principles that can be reduced to parsing and defending faceless propositions.
Posted inFaith, Features
What Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish can teach us about American Catholicism
What has football contributed to American Catholicism? What has Catholicism contributed to American football? For Catholics, it is particularly worth revisiting Notre Dame’s unique story.
Posted inFaith, News
There’s a map for that: GoodLands launches Catholic GeoHub
Molly Burhans has a treasure trove of information about the global Catholic Church and she’s giving the public the maps to find it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
The Catholic Book Club: From ‘Catholic Modern’ to ‘Say Nothing’
Kevin Spinale, S.J., the moderator of the Catholic Book Club, led discussions of two very different books this spring and summer. The first, ‘Catholic Modern,’ by James Chappel, is a heady look at how the church remade itself at a time of social and political upheaval. The second, ‘Say Nothing,’ by Patrick Radden Keefe, is a gripping account of some of the key players in the period in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.
Posted inFaith, GoodNews
Venezuelan priest becomes social media sensation with Scripture video series
Capuchin Franciscan Father Luis Antonio Salazar is breaking with traditional ways of preaching and bringing the Gospel to thousands of cellphone users each week through an Instagram video series called “Vivir el Evangelio,” or “Living the Gospel.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
Writer Joseph Pearce on the case for Shakespeare’s Catholicism
Mr. Pearce, an English-born Catholic critic, talks about the latest developments in research on Shakespeare’s faith life.