We are all pilgrims on the way, loved sinners following the call we first heard at our baptisms.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, News
Mass at Wrigley Field? This priest holds it every week for the Cubs
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would do this with the Cubs and be a priest,” said Father Burke Masters.
Posted inFaith, In All Things
Tuning out technology to tune into God
My mind echoes a chant: Don’t look at your phone. Whatever you do, don’t look at your phone. I am sitting on a bench in New York’s Upper East Side. Parents push strollers along the narrow sidewalk, their hands busy scrolling through the feed of a smartphone. A woman jogs through the falling multi-colored leaves. […]
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What my chihuahua has in common with Christ
Pets can’t replace the human, but they do love us without the taint of sin.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
Hollywood takes on heaven
This week America‘s L.A. Correspondent, Jim McDermott, S.J., talks to Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J., and they discuss how Hollywood portrays religion—for better and for worse. For Jim McDermott, many attempts to explore religious territory in film and television are kitschy, but a new show called “The Good Place” has a particularly sophisticated take on […]
Posted inBooks, Faith
Are religion and spirituality separate realities?
Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Why people are so attracted to apocalyptic biblical narratives
“For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us” (2 Thes 3:7)
Posted inFaith, Pope Francis Homilies
Pope Francis: Don’t become a hypocrite of your faith
“Behind an attitude of rigidity there is always something else in the life of a person. Rigidity is not a gift of God. Meekness is, goodness is, benevolence is, forgiveness is. But rigidity isn’t.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Pope Francis tells Jesuit congregation: ‘The world is our home’
The pope spoke about what he considers the most important work Jesuits are called to in the 21st century.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why saints are never sure of their salvation
Pride may well be the first deadly sin to arrive and the last to leave.