“Lutherans and Catholics are on the way to greater unity,” says Martin Marty.
Theology
Posted inFaith, Features
James Martin, S.J.: We need to build a bridge between LGBT community and the Catholic Church.
We are all pilgrims on the way, loved sinners following the call we first heard at our baptisms.
Posted inBooks, Faith
Are religion and spirituality separate realities?
Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
William Lynch took philosophy out of the academy.
Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Three ways to make decisions like a Jesuit
St. Ignatius suggests three possible intellectual and emotional “times” of one’s life “in any of which a sound and good election can be made.”
Posted inFaith, In All Things
If you’re reading this, you can take the Spiritual Exercises—online
We tell people making the online retreat for the first time to “Trust God. Trust yourself. And, trust this process.”
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
How to protest like a Catholic Worker
What you’re against—war, consumerism, global warming—is only half of the equation.
Posted inFaith, The Word
If you think God might tire of lost humanity, think again.
“For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost” (Lk 19:10)
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
James Martin: The saints seemed so far away. Then I started to climb.
For me, wisdom comes mainly in the form of insights.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Who Should We Consider Saints?
This week Robert Ellsberg discusses his book, Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses, with Kerry Weber and Matt Malone, S.J. The book includes reflections on the stories of canonized saints, and well as lay, non-Christian and non-religious individuals. The purpose of sharing these stories is to provide readers with daily spiritual guidance. […]