“There is only one great call in the Gospel, and it is that of following Jesus on the way of love,” Pope Francis said in his weekly Wednesday audience. “In this sense, charity and contemplation are synonymous.”
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Whatever happened to Confession? And is it time to go back?
The question remains alive today, perhaps even more so after a year of living through the Covid-19 pandemic. But today it might be rephrased as two different questions for two different audiences: “How shall one go to confession now?” and “Why go to confession at all?”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What the conversion of St. Ignatius can teach us 500 years later
The miracle is to believe that for those, like Ignatius, who believe in God and trust in God’s care and providence, there is no accident, no tragedy or failure that they cannot overcome.
Posted inFaith, Features
Our society has had a near-death experience. Will we emerge from it ready to live fully?
Let us add direction and purpose to our resolve, and let us give ourselves some magis-inspired goals.
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Down with Zoom school! Up with mystics! The case for the contemplative classroom
How do we speak to a generation that, at least on the surface, seems less and less prepared for the difficulties it will face?
Posted inArts & Culture, Of Many Things
What’s on your bookshelf? Welcome to Spring Books 2021!
An introduction to all the books, new and old, profiled in our Spring Literary Review 2021.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
When poetry meets spirituality
Eleven different poetry collections reviewed by four America editors offer a sample of the God-haunted and the God-hunted contemporary literary artists who work out their spiritual, intellectual and emotional conundrums through lyrical compositions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Can we reimagine the sacramental life? Ask this poet/farmer/educator.
In this time when so much seems to be falling apart, the writer/philosopher/farmer Michael Martin is reimagining and even building anew.
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John S. Dunne: A theologian (and author) for our dark times
Just as St. Augustine had aimed “to kindle the light of things eternal in human hearts no longer supported by temporal institutions which had seemed eternal but which were crashing on all sides,” so did John S. Dunne, C.S.C., in his many erudite books.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Why does God allow suffering? And why are our attempts to figure it out inadequate?
Perhaps the only real answer is in asking the questions.