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.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Features
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.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
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.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
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.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
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.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
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?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
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.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Podcast: Catholic health care during the coronavirus pandemic
We aren’t even close to overreacting; we need to support our medical professionals; it’s normal to be afraid, but we don’t need to be conquered by our fear.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Judge Pope Francis against the Gospel—not your ideology
Many admire Francis. But has his teaching affected them? The evidence is mixed.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
My conversations with Jean Vanier raised many questions. I have no answers.
How could he see so clearly the need to respect the vulnerable and then abuse those under his spiritual care?