A Reflection for Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

“The enemy,” or the devil, “wants to paralyze us with grief and remorse, to convince us that nothing else can be done, that it is hopeless to try to find a way to start over,” the pope said.

Diego Fares, S.J., who died of cancer last week in Rome at age 66, was arguably the greatest interpreter of the thought and way of proceeding of Pope Francis.

A Reflection for the Seventeenth Thursday in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle

Thérèse of Lisieux and St. Ignatius helped draw me away from scrupulosity—and into accepting God’s love.

We are not meant to envy the intimacy or intensity of religious life. We are called to imitate it.