Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben is Back” they try.
Health and Wellness
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The unhealthy state of U.S. health care
The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics need a better way to talk about women’s bodies. Here’s a good place to start.
We are bad at talking about women’s bodies—a fact that constrains and distorts our conversations about and policies related to women’s health.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Kate Bowler on the spiritual myths about health
Kate Bowler talks with the hosts of “Jesuitical,” Ashley McKinless, Olga Segura and Zac Davis, and explains what her cancer diagnosis taught her about American Christianity and more.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The opioid crisis demands a new solution. Churches are hoping to be part of it
The solution to the “current opioid crisis is one that involves the whole person.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What our lonely culture can learn from L’Arche, the Last Supper and ‘love feasts’
The United States is suffering from an epidemic of despair. The Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, one of the earliest descriptions of a Christian community, offers one way to cultivate love.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Living and loving with cystic fibrosis in ‘Five Feet Apart’
For people living with this chronic illness seeing aspects of their daily life on screen can be startling and affirming.
Posted inFaith, News
Catholic parents should vaccinate their children, Vatican academy says
Catholic parents should vaccinate their children for the good of their children and the community said the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Posted inFaith, Features
Meet the Vatican team running for the greater glory of God (and maybe the Olympics)
A new Vatican team supports fitness and the value of being Christian. And they just might make it to the Olympics someday.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What’s the deal with Ignatian yoga? A skeptical Jesuit finds out.
People love yoga. People love the spirituality of St. Ignatius Loyola. Mash the two together, and you have created a nice, marketable concept that can sweep a bundle of folks into the arms of the Lord and/or the Society of Jesus.