This week on “The Spiritual Life” podcast with Father James Martin, philanthropist Tim Busch opens up about how exploring different forms of prayer has inspired him to pursue conversations geared toward overcoming polarization in the church.
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Maggi Van Dorn is the Senior Audio Producer for America Media.
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Bishop Pham fled Vietnam as a refugee. Here’s how he found God amid his family’s treacherous journey.
Bishop Pham of San Diego doesn’t gloss over the tragic circumstances. But he is able to trace moments of profound grace that altered the course of his family’s journey.
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How Bishop Mariann Budde navigates politics in her preaching
So often we become fixated on how our spiritual leaders are navigating political, personal and public matters that we forget we have our own challenges in prayer.
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What it means for Catholics to ‘let your conscience be your guide’
On “The Spiritual Life,” Father James Martin welcomes James Keenan, S.J., a pre-eminent moral theologian at Boston College, to help tease out the finer considerations for forming our consciences.
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What does it mean to have a personal relationship with Jesus?
On this week’s episode of “The Spiritual Life” podcast, James Martin, S.J., is joined by an experienced spiritual director, Susan Stabile, who spent many years practicing Buddhism before returning to the Catholic faith in which she was raised.
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‘Offer it up’: A Catholic approach to suffering?
What do you do when, in your mid-fifties and at the height of your career, you are diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable brain cancer? That’s the question that confronted Ann Garrido, our guest on this week’s episode of “The Spiritual Life.”
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How Andrew Garfield practices Jesuit spirituality
Andrew Garfield joined Father James Martin on “The Spiritual Life,” sharing the fruits of studying Ignatian spirituality and what has remained with him in the years since “Silence.”
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Encountering God through music with Matt Maher
Have you ever known someone who has had a mystical moment with God that changed the trajectory of their life and faith? And have you ever felt just a little bit envious of them?
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The gift of seeing Sister Edith Prendergast in action
If Sister Edith’s spiritual gifts first attracted me to a life in ministry, it was her human warmth that said it’s O.K. for you to be here, in fact, you’re welcome to stay a while.
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I found the heart of Christmas in the remains of an old English cathedral
The Coventry Cathedral is the birthplace of a Christmas carol featured on the latest season of “Hark!”—America Media’s podcast on the stories behind our favorite Christmas carols.