Phil Klay reflects on his time as a marine during the Iraq War and what it means to be a Catholic writer today.
Spirituality
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Deployment to Iraq changed my view of God, country and humankind. So did coming home.
War experience, and trauma more generally, can be an assault not only on one’s physical sense of safety, but on one’s social, moral, and spiritual conception of the world.
Posted inExamen, Faith
Fr. James Martin, S.J.: Does your prayer change you?
If you’ve been praying the Daily Examen for a few months or even a few weeks, you may have started to notice a few ways that God is active in your life.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Running a marathon with a sprained ankle and a shaken faith
At first, I blamed God for my injury. Then I thanked God for every step.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
What kind of God do martyrs die for?
No one dies for God as an unspeakable mystery, as simply the word we use for the openness of the human spirit.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How do I find God in a newsroom massacre?
The Capital Gazette massacre is not only about incalculable loss but also all the gifts the departed gave us and leave us.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why is it so hard for us to show mercy?
Because we are not free. Because we live under the tyranny of terror that sin uses to enslave us. We think that mercy will weaken us, destroy our position of strength.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A spiritual reading of T. S. Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets’
T.S. Eliot attracts and repels all at once—but reading his ‘Four Quartets’ has been a formative experience for many a spiritual seeker.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholics cite God, not homilies, as reason for attending church
Compared with other Christians in the United States, Catholics are more likely to attend church to please other family members—and are significantly less likely to go because they “find the sermons valuable.” Those were among the findings of a Pew Research Center poll released in August. Pew interviewed 4,729 U.S. adults, including 844 self-identified Catholics, […]
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Why do we run from love?
We were not meant to run, were not meant to be hunted. We were meant to be loved.