Knowing your spiritual love language can help you better understand how you show and experience love for the divine in your daily life.
Spirituality
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Catholic students who build a chapel out of ice—and celebrate Mass in the snow
When winter regularly throws you more than 200 inches of snow, make an ice chapel.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘The Book of Boba Fett’ and the limits of mercy
“The Book of Boba Fett” explored some classic “Star Wars” themes, including idealism and the importance of family, but ultimately veered away from getting too deeply into them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Thomas Merton, unfiltered
Patrick Collins gives a close read of Thomas Merton’s correspondence in “A Focus on Truth: Thomas Merton’s Uncensored Mind.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Five spiritual tips to help you avoid pandemic despair
The pandemic is a terrible reality, but it is not hopeless. James Martin, S.J., offers a few tips drawn from Christian spirituality that have helped him avoid despair.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
A peace activist with a monastic temperament: Remembering Jim Forest
Jim Forest, who died on Jan. 13, was a lifelong peace activist and the author of numerous books, including biographies of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: God is not frightened by our sins
“Tenderness is something greater than the logic of the world. It is an unexpected way of doing justice,” Pope Francis said in his general audience on Jan. 19.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
You will never regret going to the funeral
No one wants to be at a funeral. It means that a loss has occurred, hearts broken. But there are few other instances in which doing something we dread so deeply can mean so much.
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis on Epiphany: Don’t get stuck in a spiritual parking lot. Faith is always moving forward.
“Sometimes we live in a spirit of a ‘parking lot’; we stay parked, without the impulse of desire that carries us forward. We do well to ask: where are we on our journey of faith?”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a Jesuit and I am not an alcoholic. But I go to 12-step meetings.
My dad was and is an alcoholic. Al-Anon gives me a framework for naming my situation, taking responsibility for my actions and making changes so that I can live a (more) emotionally sober life.