Are Jesuits Catholic? Are they communists? Are they celibate? What do Jesuits do? In the third episode of Jesuit Autocomplete, Fr. Eric Sundrup, S.J., and Fr. Paddy Gilger, S.J., answer some of the internet’s most searched questions about Jesuits.
via Commonweal: Each day more signs point to a tremendous shift in American conservatism away from the prior consensus and toward the new nationalism of Donald Trump. This is evident not only in the recent National Conservatism Conference held in July in Washington, D.C., but also in the manifesto signed by a number of Christians… Read More Commonweal Publishes Open Letter Against the New Nationalism
via Loyola University Chicago: Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has lived an incredible life as a Catholic sister, educator, and college basketball icon. In advance of her 100th birthday, she reflects on all of this and more in a conversation with Loyola’s president, Dr. Jo Ann Rooney: via Andy Katz: Sister Jean turns đź’Ż tomorrow! What’s… Read More Sister Jean is Turning 100!
via La Stampa: Let’s ideally cross the ocean and think of South America. Why did you convene a Synod on the Amazon in the Vatican in October? “It is the “child” of the “Laudato si”. Those who have not read it will never understand the Synod on the Amazon. Laudato si’ is not a green… Read More Pope Francis on the Amazon Synod and Laudato Si
Stephen Colbert discusses suffering, loss, empathy, gratitude, Christianity, and more with Anderson Cooper: You said “what punishment of gods are not gifts. Do you really believe that?” @andersoncooper, choking back tears, asks Stephen Colbert, as they discuss grief. “Yes,” replies the comedian. “It’s a gift to exist and with existence comes suffering. There’s no escaping… Read More Stephen Colbert on Suffering: God Does It Too, We’re Really Not Alone
Millennial editor Robert Christian writes: On the Motherly podcast, actress Caterina Scorsone of Grey’s Anatomy describes how she came to realize that she was loving everyone, including herself, for “absolutely the wrong reason.” “I was loving people for their external qualities and not for their essence,” she said. She had believed that she loved her… Read More How Having a Child with Down Syndrome Transformed Caterina Scorsone’s Understanding of Love
Pope Francis: “Prayer frees us from the burden of worldliness, and teaches us to live joyfully, to distance ourselves from what is superficial, in an exercise of true freedom. Prayer draws us out of our self-centredness, from being reclusive in an empty religious experience; it leads us to place ourselves, with docility, in the hands… Read More Quote of the Day
