“Profoundness of the heart grows with silence, silence that is not mutism as I said, but which leaves space for wisdom, reflection and the Holy Spirit.”
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Short Take
For many, a tattoo isn’t just ink. It’s a religious experience.
Among U.S. adults under 35, about 40 percent have tattoos. And getting inked has more parallels to traditional religious practice than you might think.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Advent is a season meant for joyful hope. But this year, I’m struggling with anger and resentment.
I am generally a joyful person, a loving person, a forgiving person, but right now I am struggling to be any of those things.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When Thanksgiving gratitude comes with a side of guilt
How can we be grateful in a world filled with inequality?
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
The joy and spirituality of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
I never thought choking another human could feel so akin to prayer, but here we are.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Working to ‘transform your own heart’ can’t be an excuse to ignore social injustice
If the world is going to wait for all of us to become perfect before we can find solutions to social evils, the world will have to wait for a long time.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
What chronic pain taught Ross Douthat about God and suffering
You might know Ross Douthat as the token conservative at The New York Times, or the Catholic critic of Pope Francis. But in his new book, The Deep Places, you’ll see a different side of the author.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a 25-year-old Catholic who ran for public office. But don’t call me a politician.
Although I did not emerge victorious in the race for legislator in Nassau County’s 14th District, I did learn some valuable lessons about my country and my own beliefs along the way.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Latin Mass, women priests, celibacy? Climate change will make all the church’s arguments pointless
Nothing will change the church more profoundly than the color green ceasing to be ordinary.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
What does a Catholic priest think about ‘Midnight Mass’?
What does a Catholic priest make of “Midnight Mass”? Is the Netflix show anti-Catholic?