Especially when preaching to young people who are stressed, traumatized or incarcerated, Father Greg Boyle has learned: If you’re not telling stories, they’re not listening.

Asked how he was living this Easter period, given his condition and convalescence, Pope Francis replied, “As best I can!”

Lent, as a season of penance and preparation, served as the perfect time to push myself out of my spiritual and physical comfort zone––both for my own sake and for those coming to the performance.

It was Drew Christiansen, S.J., even more than Thoreau or Aquinas, whom I was surprised to encounter amid the German landscapes on the Upper East Side.

On Good Friday, the role of the preacher is to get out of the way.

A Homily for the Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, by Father Terrance Klein