Hanging religious art shakes up class-based ideas about how our home should look.
Spirituality
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Why faith and fear of death are not incompatible
As fearful and fearless Christians, we are called to lovingly and cautiously care for our own lives and those of others, acknowledging the startling beauty and value of human life in all stages.
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Reading St. Ignatius in a time of quarantine
Although we find ourselves separated from the sacraments, it is possible to make an Ignatian retreat from home as we enter Holy Week.
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What will our world look like after the coronavirus crisis? That is up to us.
What our world will become will depend on the way we respond now, on how we can open our eyes and hearts to the things that really matter in our lives: family, friends, people, community, nation and a healthier world.
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A Jesuit went to Milan to learn Italian. Covid-19 taught him something more.
Milan, under quarantine, has asked me to renounce the particular version of our American response to fear that I have made my own.
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When the racist response to Covid-19 hits home
I have traveled all over the world, yet I have never felt the need to hide my ethnicity until now, in my own hometown, New York City.
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How these students celebrated their senior year after Covid-19 closed Boston College’s campus
Returning home from school for the last time would not be easy for many.
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How do we stay spiritually fit in a time of coronavirus?
Self-denial is a kind of training. What we are aiming for is the spiritual athleticism that equips us to meet the demands that will come.
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To heal the church from the sex abuse crisis, we need apologies, not just policies
What if each and every priest acknowledged the pain and devastation this scandal has caused?
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Money has warped youth sports. Ignatian spirituality offers a better way to play.
St. Ignatius invites us to discern spiritual meaning in everyday experience. I have found that such discoveries occur frequently on the basketball court.