Nuns and Nones, an organization that brings these two groups—both spiritually seeking, both distinctly committed to justice—together for conversation, relationship and even shared housing.
Ministry
Posted inFaith, Features
When professional Catholics burn out
Working for the church can make it hard to believe in it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The best advice I can offer new priests
Yes, your life is focused on God but centered by the people God gives you to serve.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic
Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Jean Vanier, ‘living saint’ who ministered to people with disabilities, dies at 90
Jean Vanier lived the beautiful mystery of our human condition that we need one another, young and old, strong and weak.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The hopes and challenges of priestly celibacy today
For celibate priests, there are three specific and essential elements of formation for sustaining their commitment: They need a meaningful reason for celibacy, they need skills for celibate living, and they need a supportive community.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Dear priests who improvise at Mass: Please don’t.
Adding more words will not make Mass “better.” If you cleanly speak the words as they are, if you let them flow through you, the people in the pews may hear the Mass as they have never heard it before. You do not need to do more. It’s not about you.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
How do you minister at an all-boys Catholic school? Use ‘Avengers: Endgame’
God can speak to us in unexpected ways—sometimes, even through a superhero movie.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Jesuitical’s 100th episode: This time, Ashley, Olga and Zac answer the questions
This week, we’re turning the tables: To celebrate our 100th episode, former guest and CNN analyst Kirsten Powers interviews your hosts to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we got here.
Posted inFaith, Features
With a church in crisis, why do Catholic women stay?
In many corners of the church, women are not treated with equal dignity and worth. Too often, the structures of the Catholic Church show little openness to meaningful transformation. But our church’s lack of insight, and the breakdown of our own self-monitoring systems, are curable.