The C.E.C. demonstrates a profound, organic Catholicism that places people within “the wholeness of creation” and asks them “to look and feel and touch and know it.”
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Posted inArts & Culture, Music
This Irish Christmas carol was once nearly forgotten. Now it’s newly famous.
I have learned to take Christmas carols seriously and to anticipate the epiphanies they may bear in my spiritual life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Ethan Hawke’s new biopic ‘Wildcat’ gracefully captures Flannery O’Connor’s complex attitudes on race, writing and faith
“Wildcat,” the new film by Ethan Hawke about the life of Flannery O’Connor, is not your typical biopic, a fact that seems entirely appropriate since O’Connor is not your typical writer.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
What a failed 18th-century synod—and a talking point for Archbishop Viganò—can teach us about synodality
The ghost of Pistoia is by now quite experienced at haunting Catholic memories.
Posted inFaith, Features
Keeping an eye on the devil: How should today’s Catholics think about the prince of darkness?
Pope Francis has spoken regularly about the devil and has reminded us that the devil is not simply a pop-culture trope.
Posted inFaith, Features
Cardinal Cupich on retrieving the Consistent Ethic of Life
Furthering the vision of Cardinal Bernardin with an Integral Ethic of Solidarity
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Everything you need to know about the Synod on Synodality
This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley bring listener questions about the synod to America’s veteran Vatican correspondent, Gerard O’Connell.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
There should be voting at the synod.
But it shouldn’t be as simple as that.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Cardinal Cupich: What Jesuit Catholic universities can do to stay true to their identity and mission
No Jesuit Catholic university’s mission should be reduced to the wider culture’s understanding of social justice.
Posted inFaith, Features
What ISIS couldn’t take: The place and faith Iraq’s Christian refugees carried with them
The story of how one Iraqi refugee preserved the memory of home through her art.