“Reading authors like bell hooks taught me to be alert not only for instances of sexism and racism but for patterns of it,” writes Father James Martin.

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A Reflection for the Sunday of the First Week of Advent from Father James Martin, S.J.

As with much of his pastoral approach overall, the pope’s outreach to L.G.B.T. people can be characterized by the word “accompaniment.”

From 1995: Mother Angelica, devout and well-inten­tioned as she may be, has some big problems.

How do we communicate what it was like to live that day to people who were not yet born?

These statistics should be enough to make us want to undergo a metanoia, a change of mind and heart, and make us ask why our church is not only not a welcoming place to L.G.B.T.Q. people, but actively unwelcoming.

Father James Martin analyzes Pope Francis’ new decree.

James Martin S.J.'s 1994 review of ‘Friends,’ published when it first aired.

Dan may have been a “radical,” but he was also a man committed to his Jesuit vows.