This week on “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley are joined by Megan Nix, the author of Remedies for Sorrow: An Extraordinary Child, a Secret Kept from Pregnant Women, and a Mother’s Pursuit of the Truth.
Family Life
Posted inArts & Culture, Interviews
A Jesuit high school grad explores grief and reconciliation through directing theater
Thanks to Jack Serio’s direction and playwright Ruby Thomas’s script, “The Animal Kingdom” falls into the category of a difficult but necessary watch, and the questions we are left with inspire us to think more critically about our mental health and relationships.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The Synod needs more parents
The greatest gift the church can give to our youth is to better serve their parents. This would begin with listening to us.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why Catholics should resist NIMBYism
Housing is an extension of people and of the family, and we can’t ignore the need for more housing simply because we don’t want our neighborhoods to change.
Posted inPolitics & Society, The Weekly Dispatch
Bipartisan child tax credit deal could reverse a historic spike in child poverty
The child tax credit enhancements will lift as many as 400,000 children above the poverty line in 2024 and move an additional 3 million U.S. children in deep poverty closer to the poverty line.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What I say when people ask: How many children do you have?
Answering the question of how many kids feels impossible.
Posted inArts & Culture, Theater
The big family drama returns to Broadway with ‘Appropriate’ and ‘A Prayer for the French Republic’
For playwrights, family dramas are never just about families.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Is being rich bad for your soul? Yes, but not for the reason you expect
Our consumerist throwaway culture has severe and palpable noneconomic effects, driving the resort to abortion, assisted suicide, and even the way we treat animals in factory farms.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
A Syriac Catholic priest and father in Bethlehem preaches on the Feast of the Holy Family
On this week’s “Preach,” Yunan Frédéric shares with host Ricardo da Silva, S.J., his approach to preaching. “It’s like walking with a friend and talking together;” he says, “I am very much listening as well.
Posted inFaith, Scripture Reflections
Elizabeth and Zechariah remind us that God knows us by name
A Reflection for Saturday of the Third Week of Advent, by Kerry Weber