Members of the Society of Jesus have been called in recent years to see as mission territory not just our works out in the world, but the very communities in which we live.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Reading the news is torture enough. Watching TV shouldn’t be.
Watching the same character fall short of redemption, or meaningful contrition, over and over again, dozens of times, is torture.
Posted inFaith, News
‘There is no way to sugarcoat it’: Record number of German Catholics left the church last year
“The figures for 2021 show the profound crisis in which we find ourselves as the Catholic Church in Germany,” said Bishop Georg Bätzing.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Parishes: Please keep livestreaming Mass after the pandemic
As pandemic restrictions have eased, most parishioners have returned to in-person Masses. But some would prefer the option for virtual services to remain.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
Andre Dubus on prayer and parental love
Andre Dubus wrote short stories and novellas about the brutal truths and miraculous moments in life—and more than a few dealt with the joys and sorrows of fatherhood.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Interview: What is the bishops’ eucharistic revival, and why should Catholics care?
Pew reports that only 32 percent of U.S. Catholics believe in the true presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The U.S. bishops are trying to make that number go up.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I think God might want me to be a vegan
I became a vegetarian, and I am now thinking about becoming a vegan. In this discernment, I see God staring back at me.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Many libraries are ending late fees. They’re showing us an unexpected mercy.
In San Diego and Boston, in Burbank and Chicago and Orange Beach, Ala., libraries all over the country have been ending the dispensing of fines for overdue books.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Thomas Merton’s deep devotion to the Eucharist — and how it called him to radical love
Gregory K. Hillis tackles an argument that has long haunted Thomas Merton’s legacy: that Merton somehow was not a faithful-enough Catholic.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis tells the elderly: Don’t be religious hypocrites—young people are watching us.
The story of Eleazar refusing to back down from his faith even in his old age reminds us that faith without action is just hypocrisy.