This post by Brendan Busse, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. I held the mic. That’s about it. I had been asked to serve as an acolyte for the diaconate ordination of eight Jesuits here in Madrid. During an ordination liturgy the presiding bishop moves around more than usual — sit, stand, kneel, from one… Read More Invisible Things

Over the last couple of years, there has been a growing focus among American Catholics on the fundamental incompatibility of libertarianism and Catholic moral and social thought. Yet few have become familiar with an approach to American politics that is far more compatible with the Church’s approach: communitarianism. In this video, Amitai Etzioni, a leading… Read More What is Communitarianism?

Millennial writer Meghan Clark has a new article at US Catholic. She writes: For Christians, widespread poverty and inequality is scandalous, even though no one calls Olivia Pope to handle it. Echoing his predecessors, Pope Francis frequently admonishes us that poverty is a scandal. He laments that when people with no homes die of exposure… Read More This is What Real Scandal Looks Like

Two years ago I declared that Deacon Mike Rogers was a better person than I am. Last year I admitted that I still hadn’t forgiven Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the recently convicted Boston Marathon bomber. Now that the last athlete has crossed the finish line of the 119th running, I confess that I still hold an angry… Read More Sermon on the Marathon

“Terror in the Heartland” read the headline in our morning newspaper 20 years ago. It was sprawled over a full-color photo of a firefighter holding a little girl. That image and headline are burned into my memory. Even though I lived far from Oklahoma City, the terror resonated with my teenage self. People went to… Read More Marathons and Prayer: Moving Forward from Terror

The Vatican today confirmed the rumors that started last week: Pope Francis will indeed visit Cuba days before his trip to the United States this fall. Francis played a prominent role in President Obama’s decision last December to begin the process of restarting diplomatic relations with the small Communist country ninety miles south of Florida.… Read More Breaking: Pope Francis to visit Cuba before US visit this fall

Millennial editor Robert Christian has a new article in Church Life. He writes: Republicans who reject economic libertarianism are subject to primary challenges from the right, financed by those who see politics as a transactional process to serve their own interests. Democrats who reject social libertarianism often lack the funds to compete in primaries against… Read More A New Progressive Era for the Second Gilded Age