Reading: It’s good for your soul
Reading well requires an act of trust to step into a world of words and thought that we did not create for ourselves. Christians: take note.
What my vegetable garden has taught me about life and God
Jesus practically shouted at his disciples: Pay attention to your garden!
Is life but a joke?
A Reflection for the Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, by James T. Keane
Review: Michael Mewshaw’s latest novel dwells in darkness—but offers a way out.
Readers of ‘Not Heaven But Paradise’ may feel like they have been through the hell of our contemporary world and also seen the only way out of the darkness.
In Assisi, Pope Leo urges young people to become ‘new saints’
Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 5 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to become the “new saints” the world needs today.
Ross Douthat and the case for the Catholic lay intellectual
Ross Douthat’s greatest contribution has not been to conservative politics or even to Catholic debates. It has been to demonstrate that Catholicism remains an intellectually serious way of understanding the world.
The Ohio art teacher leading the Catholic response to the Haitian immigrant crisis
Casey Rollins is living an extraordinary third act as an internationally known face of American kindness.
The lesson of the Ceuta migrant crisis isn’t about liberal border policy.
Ceuta is a symptom of a global problem. And it will get worse without action.
Previously unpublished letters add to Rupnik abuse case allegations
In the letters, 22 women described alleged spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse by Father Rupnik while he was their spiritual director.
Jesuit, Zen Master and Hiroshima bomb survivor: The legacy of Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle
Enomiya-Lassalle, S.J., dedicated his four-plus decades of life after the bombing to bringing Zen meditation into the Catholic Church and creating a cathedral in Hiroshima dedicated to peace.
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