The latest neuroscience will blow your mind, body and soul.

Joining Ashley and Zac to cover the cosmos on this week’s episode of “Jesuitical” is Guy Consolmagno, S.J., the director of the Vatican Observatory and author of the new book, A Jesuit’s Guide to the Stars: Exploring Wonder, Beauty, and Science.

Octavia Butler, the Black science fiction writer who died in 2006, did not just create imaginary worlds with parallels to ours. Sometimes she created worlds that are eerily a little too much like our own.

A Homily for the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Father Terrence Klein

Thomas Pynchon is best-known as the reclusive author of some of our most famous postmodern novels. But is he also a discerning judge of our spiritual health?

It is not selfish to do what you are good at and then to show a degree of humility about other things—including politics and other fields of expertise.