On this week’s episode of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Sam Sorich, an award-winning filmmaker teaching film production at John Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, California
Spirituality
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A young comedian’s complicated relationship with Catholicism
And the Easter Mass that moved her
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Watching ‘The Chosen’ in prison
It is a profound thing, when society has labeled you a criminal and a felon, to think that at the center of the world’s most populous faith tradition is a man whom those in power at the time condemned as a criminal.
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At age 95, I’m trying a softer approach to Lent
I’m hoping that a softer approach to these 40 days will help prepare me for the more difficult ones I know are coming.
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‘The White Lotus’ finale, sin and discernment: How (and why) do we make big life choices?
Take the money? Join a monastery? Grab the gun?
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We documented the faith lives of young Latino Catholics. Here’s what we learned.
Young Latinos are constantly negotiating who they are as people of faith and as members of our society. Some feel alone, others rejected, others not fully understood. Yet all carry in their lives an element of hope to which the church must pay attention.
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New Age weddings on the rise in Ireland as Catholic marriages decline
While Catholic weddings in Ireland have dropped over the past three decades, New Age marriages are rapidly gaining in prominence.
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Seeing what is holy in every religious tradition: Lessons from 100 retreats at a Camaldolese monastery
I know of nowhere saner or more steadying, especially in a world of acceleration and contention.
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Our readers on the greatness of Catholic kitsch
Our readers offer their appreciation for Kerry Weber’s defense of Catholic kitsch.
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Saints, souls and spirituality: Remembering theologian Larry Cunningham
Lawrence “Larry” Cunningham, a longtime professor of theology at Notre Dame University and a well-known writer on spirituality, sainthood and more, died on Feb. 20, 2025.