An agnostic, I came to the Abbey seeking not Christ but quiet. For nearly two days I remained unplugged from the information world; no texts, e-mails, YouTube, Instagram, phone calls, etc.
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Podcast: Spiritual advice you don’t want to miss for 2026
This week on “Jesuitical,” Ashley and Sebastian get some spiritual wisdom for the new year from Eric Sundrup, S.J., the vice president for mission and ministry at Xavier University and longtime spiritual director of the show.
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Read: Pope Leo’s Epiphany homily for the close of the Jubilee of Hope
(OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV presided over the rite of the closing of the Holy Door in St. Peter’s Basilica Jan. 6, 2026, officially ending the Jubilee of Hope, which began Christmas Eve 2024. He also presided over Mass for the Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord in the basilica. Below is the […]
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How do I reset my spiritual life in the New Year?
In my conversation with Brother Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O., on the premiere of the second season of “The Spiritual Life” podcast, we tackled six questions we’ve gotten from listeners and viewers over the last year. We thought that having a Trappist and a Jesuit, given their different spiritual perspectives, address the same questions would make for […]
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A Jesuit Navy chaplain witnesses the healing power of sacraments for military personnel with PTSD
Prayer can serve as a bulwark against the challenges of life after war.
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Man Ray and the spiritual power of surrealist art
By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.
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Madwoman or prophet? ‘The Testament of Anne Lee’ presents a radical and threatening faith
To outsiders, Ann Lee was a madwoman, a dangerous nonconformist and a sexual deviant; but to her faithful, “Mother Ann” was the promise of God fulfilled.
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Interview: Our new columnist Gina Hens-Piazza on 40 years of teaching Scripture
Gina Hens-Piazza began writing America’s Word column with the start of the new liturgical year on the first Sunday of Advent, Nov. 30.
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How a Living Nativity brought Christmas joy to our parish
It began in 1995, simply as a way to bring Christmas joy to our neighbors.
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Walking through doors of hope and communion with the Christ Child Society
On a pilgrimage to Rome during this Jubilee Year of Hope, the experience of walking through holy doors transformed my thinking about doors in general. I began to focus less on their physicality and more on their purpose as a passage to a place beyond.