I never thought choking another human could feel so akin to prayer, but here we are.
Spirituality
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?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
‘Trust the experts’ is the new ‘obey the priest.’ But it is not getting us closer to the truth.
The worship of expertise, detached from any transcendent perspective, has already plagued modern life. Now rationality is becoming just another weapon with which to attack others.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Three Reasons Everyone Should Try Anonymous Confession
Whatever a person’s experiences and fears of confession have been, going to confession behind a partition has a tremendous amount to offer us.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Tola Rotimi Abraham traces interior universes in her debut novel
Tola Rotimi Abraham is from Lagos, Nigeria. She writes this, her debut novel, with one foot placed in the intimate and communal confines of Lagos and the other inside her characters’ heads.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Ted Lasso’ officially has its own Judas character.
Both the heroes and villains of “Ted Lasso” remain quite ordinary. And it is the show’s portrayal of that daily reckoning with good and evil, those small temptations, that make it easy to relate to.