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Spirituality
Posted inFaith
How our Confirmation students kept us calm during a false missile threat in Hawaii
Our confirmation students remained calm and exhibited great maturity, serving as an indication of their preparedness to receive the Gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Finding the Jesuit spirit of theater in Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’
A computer scientist returns to the stage
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
If God spoke up in our lives, would we really listen?
We tell ourselves that we would happily do whatever God wanted if God would only make himself clear.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The humbling spirituality of (bad) fishing
My fishing life has been a series of snagged lines and broken dreams.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
How can we cure cataracts on the soul?
It is not just our eyes that become brittle and inflexible as we age. Our hearts can, too.
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Living into Mystery: Karl Rahner’s Reflections on his 75th Birthday
“The center of my theology? Good Lord, that can’t be anything else but God as mystery and Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen One, as the historical event in which this God turns irreversibly toward us in self-communication.”
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The case for taking up the Ignatian examen in the New Year
Along with the special communication of Scripture, God reaches us through the experience of a given day.
Posted inFaith, Features
These families lost loved ones to violence. Now they are fighting the death penalty.
Discussions of capital punishment do not often address how death sentences affect the people who are left behind.
Posted inEspañol, La Palabra
La Natividad del Señor
Para festejar este día santo, la Iglesia nos propone unos fragmentos de la Sagrada Escritura que dan sentido al misterio que celebramos.