If human progress itself is God’s agent of change, why does God, or humanity, need a church?
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Donald Trump, the Temple and the End Time
It is helpful and healthy to put aside the myth of sure and sunny progress. Our nation is a very good one, even if it’s never been the “greatest nation on earth.”
Posted inFaith, The Word
Stay Awake!
At an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come. (Mt 24:44)
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WATCH LIVE: Ignatian Family Teach-In 2016
Watch the Ignatian Family Teach-In 2016 live this weekend.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
We have made this mess of an election. It’s ours. What are we going to do about it?
“You made me. You live with me.”
Posted inPolitics & Society
Father James Martin: Reconciliation and Dissent in the Age of Trump
How does a Catholic move ahead after the election of Donald J. Trump as president?For many Catholics this not a problem. Indeed, the majority of Catholics voted for Mr. Trump and are presumably delighted by his victory. White Catholics, perhaps responding to his message to promote job growth, s
Posted inColumns, Faith
What Canadian religious history can teach us about U.S. church attendance
Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Onward Christian Soldier
It was a dark night and a bleak next morning. And then grace came.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
How the Spiritual Exercises can help non-Catholics
‘The Exercises are a means to an end, but not an end in themselves. We shouldn’t mystify them or turn them into a third testament.’