Whatever brings a person closer to God is holy.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Features
The single life is a sacred vocation—and it’s more fulfilling than our culture leads you to believe.
A willingness to recognize the holiness of the ordinary might be the highest ideal of the solitary life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (maybe) spoke with the dead
‘The root of Spiritism…is the diseased moral condition of the age,’ one Catholic author wrote.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis: Mary shows how to turn fear into invitation to hear God’s call
There is no better way to pray than like Mary, who opened her heart to God with humility and trust, Pope Francis said.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Infuriating life (and post-election) advice: If you want peace, accept things as they are.
This is the prayer: Accept things as they are. It was all meant to be.
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Election Day’s chaos and long lines brought me hope for my country—and my church
Whatever comes next may be ugly. We all know this. But for reasons I can hardly explain, I felt buoyed up the morning after the election.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
God, please just give me (and the country) a little patience.
The only reaction that matters right now for most of us is spiritual. We need patience. We need to let the votes be counted.
Posted inFaith
Jesuit tools to help you survive the election (and its aftermath)
Is there anything in St. Ignatius’ spiritual practices that can offer to help us make it through the aftermath of the election? Yes.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Podcast: Stories from a real-life exorcist consultant
Dr. Richard Gallagher is a board-certified psychiatrist, a leading expert in the field of exorcism and the author of Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis: Prayer and crying out to God is only source of salvation
The purpose of crying out to the Lord in prayer is not to get used to suffering, but to remember that God, and not humankind, is the only source of salvation and consolation, Pope Francis said.