“Where might you expect to find the baptized?” asks Rowan Williams in Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer. “In the neighbourhood of chaos,” he replies.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, In All Things
From the Gospels to Elizabeth Warren, women nevertheless persist
Stories of persistent women abound in the Gospels.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Sanctifying the Acela Corridor: My travels with St. Katharine Drexel
“What about you?” It’s the question St. Katharine, homegrown saint of the Northeast’s Acela Corridor, heard from Pope Leo XIII.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Is Pope Francis subtweeting Donald Trump? Ep. 5
Four years ago this month, the Argentine cardinal (and Jesuit) Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis. Michael O’Loughlin, America‘s national correspondent and author of The Tweetable Pope: A Spiritual Revolution in 140 Characters, has been covering this historic papacy ever since. This week on jesuitical, we ask Mike who has a better Twitter game: Pope Francis or President […]
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
The resurrection comes by way of witness, not explanation.
There are truths that can only be shared by way of testimony, and these are the ones that matter most to us.
Posted inPodcasts, Politics & Society
Who does the Benedict Option exclude and who does it benefit?
On this episode of the podcast, Matt Malone, S.J., and Kerry Weber are joined by James Martin, S.J., to talk about the Benedict Option, and the duty of Catholics to engage with issues of social justice. The episode begins with a discussion of the homelessness, the war in Syria and ongoing health crises in Haiti, […]
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Short attention spans, short news cycles and short form Gospels
Being comfortable receiving and processing information faster unfortunately does not correlate with our ability to assess that information for truth, much less for wisdom.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Confessions of a Porn-Addicted Priest
How loneliness and self-deception led me to rock bottom, and how God’s grace saved me.
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Pope Francis: Don’t treat the confessional like the dry cleaners
Christians can take for granted the power of the sacrament of reconciliation and confess while being “unable to be ashamed” of their sins, the pope said.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
What Rod Dreher gets right in “The Benedict Option” is just as important as what he gets wrong.
Patrick Gilger, S.J., reviews “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation” by Rod Dreher.