Mary Oliver reminds us of the mystery and necessity of poetry.
Spirituality
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The Catholic side of Irish soda bread (and the world’s greatest recipe)
Cutting a cross into Irish soda bread dough before placing it in the oven serves both a scientific purpose and a spiritual one.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Jean Vanier’s Gift for Living
A celibate spiritual leader who is not a priest, a philosopher with a doctoral degree who is not a professor, Vanier is not easily categorized.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Recovering Western Liturgical Traditions
What can Catholics learn from our brothers in the Eastern church?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The Joy of Transformation: Rediscovering the sacrament of reconciliation
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
Posted inFaith
Pope Benedict on hope: Considering the pope’s new encyclical
An analysis of the encyclical ‘Spe Salvi’
Posted inFaith
An interview with former Jesuit General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach
On Sept. 13, 1983, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach was elected 29th superior general. He retired in 2008.
Posted inArts & Culture, Faith in Focus
Just a Little More Faith: When Sam Rockwell Played Judas Iscariot
“I wasn’t raised religious and I don’t know anything about religion,” he said in 2004.
Posted inFaith, Features
Spy Wednesday: Who was Judas and why did he do it?
Saints and theologians, not to mention authors and poets, have long debated this thorny question: Why did Judas do it? To answer that we need to know something about the man himself.
Posted inFaith, Features
Who was St. John of the Cross?
There are so many mistaken notions about St. John of the Cross (1542-91) that we might do well to clarify some of them.