“The Song of Bernadette” follows a classic horror-film structure in order to make a theological point that could not be more urgent.
Spirituality
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Thinking about your death will make you a better Catholic
This week, we talk with Sister Theresa Aletheia, the founder of the Memento Mori Project.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How addiction and trauma brought one nun closer to God
For the past 10 years, I have been able to share my journey of encountering God’s healing love and mercy at conferences and retreats with audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the nation.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My friend suffered silently for years. I didn’t know the depth of her pain until it was too late.
Her voice disappeared, leaving an unrelieved haunting silence that signified the end of Susan Broxton’s earthly life.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Father Thomas Keating’s parting wisdom for a divided church and country
Father Keating left us a powerful but unlikely solution to our current national crisis: centering prayer.
Posted inFaith, News
Rosary maker grows own beads; ‘too few people pray in world,’ he says
In the backyard of his modest home, the 90-year-old waters and nurtures waist-high plants known as “Job’s Tears.” He picks the round grains when they ripen in late summer and uses them for rosary beads.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Amid drug crisis, spiritual first responders hit the streets
Sidewalk prayers near shoot-up spots. Sunday sermons in the back of a bar. Pleas to struggling souls to surrender to God. Funerals for members of their flock who didn’t make it. Clergy members have become spiritual first responders in the opioid crisis, often leaving the pulpit to minister on the streets. They can be reverends, […]
Posted inFaith, Video
Phil Klay: Catholic Poet & Patriot
Phil Klay reflects on his time as a marine during the Iraq War and what it means to be a Catholic writer today.
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.