As a Catholic priest, you can count on people to be curious about two things in your life: celibacy and confessions.
Spirituality
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Is there life after college?
The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
William Lynch took philosophy out of the academy.
Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.
Posted inFaith, The Word
Witnesses to Life
St. Augustine defined martyrdom in this way: “It is the reason why, not the suffering that constitutes the martyr.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Can watching a Netflix series actually make you a better Catholic?
“High Maintenance” and “Easy” train viewers to think outside of themselves and to consider what is going on inside other people’s minds.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Waiting to hear about the new Jesuit superior general, and remembering my time as a delegate
The congregation has spoken, and we are happy with their choice of Father Arturo Sosa as our new superior general.
Posted inFaith, Signs Of the Times
Check Your Hypocrisy
Meeting a pilgrimage of Catholics and Lutherans from Germany, Pope Francis said he does not like “the contradiction of those who want to defend Christianity in the West and, on the other hand, are against refugees and other religions.” Answering questions from young people in the group o
Posted inPolitics & Society, Washington Front
Does your Catholic faith shape your politics, or is it the other way around?
We need more faithful Catholics running for office and more outreach to Catholic voters.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
What is the new Jesuit Superior General really like?
This week Tim Reidy and Ashley McKinless welcome America‘s editor at large James Martin, S.J., into the studio. Together they discuss the new Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Arturo Sosa, S.J., and what type of leader he will make in comparison to his predecessor.
Posted inFaith, Generation Faith
Leaving the seminary to find my vocation.
Being at peace with one’s vocation is a great gift. But this gift is not easy to find.