It’s now been twenty years since Rwanda was engulfed in a sea of unimaginable horrors. Perhaps 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in just 100 days in 1994, as the world stood by idly. This modern genocide relied not on the latest technology, but on simple instruments of death—most often machetes and nail-studded sticks… Read More Rwanda’s Central Lesson: Never Again
Though the conflict in Syria is raging less than 50 miles away from my home in Amman and the effects of the war can be seen and felt in countless ways throughout the country, I have lacked much of any emotional reaction to the horrific humanitarian, cultural, and environmental destruction that is occurring just beyond… Read More Fr. Frans, Holy Week, and Paradoxical Tears
In his 1990 World Day of Peace Message, Pope John Paul II recognized that “[t]he gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related ‘greenhouse effect’ has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial growth, massive urban concentrations and vastly increased energy needs.” At the time he delivered that message, the global atmospheric… Read More Prudence and Climate Change: How the Church Can Help Our Response to Climate Science
This post by Jeremy Zipple, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post. A friend once told me she’d love to be a fly on the wall at Jesuit community dinners. “I’d learn a ton,” she said, implying, I guess, that a tableful of overly educated guys with varied interests could surely produce some profitable… Read More Global Catholicism: The Church is Changing, But Not How We Might Think
Creighton Prep, a Jesuit High School in Omaha, Nebraska, will begin testing their students for drug and alcohol use next year. A first positive test will result in counseling, a second in disciplinary action, and a third in dismissal. While some libertarians are irritated, many parents are thrilled the school is creating an environment that… Read More The Catholic Church’s Drinking Problem
A lot of millennial Catholics do not go to confession regularly. I am one of them. We are far more likely to make confessions on the internet than to a priest (see: previous sentence). Overall, around 75% of Catholics never go to confession or go less than once a year, according to a study from… Read More Time to Listen to Francis and Go Back to Confession?
[This post by Jeff Sullivan, SJ is also featured on The Jesuit Post] “Do you mind if I feed Jonathan?” my sister-in-law asked me as she threw an oversized blanket over her shoulder – but the question she was posing to me wasn’t really “if,” it was “where.” My sister-in-law was gauging whether or not I… Read More The Beauty of Breastfeeding
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