Peace activist John Dear’s departure from the Jesuits calls to mind our need for modern prophets. On a recent trip from Chicago to Charlotte, North Carolina, I...
The Examined Life
Discover The Examined Life columns, highlighting the intersections between contemplation, lived faith, and social justice in daily life.
The young woman shared her difficult history, her crippling grief. Then she asked, “So what’s a chaplain again?” Hospitals, especially hospital emergency...
Seeking input on marriage and family life, Pope Francis has decided to consult the experts. If Pope Francis asked you whether divorced and remarried Catholics...
The real bread of the Eucharist has plenty to say about people starving while others eat $17 burgers. Chicago has recently experienced an unholy attack on the...
Who says that all the top positions in the church need to go to priests and bishops? The parish I grew up in, like many Catholic churches before it, had two...
There’s something appropriate about turning 40 in a place where you might get eaten by a grizzly. The mountains don’t care about you,” says the forest ranger...
We lay off teachers and nurses while we hire for prisons, casinos, and fracking. This is progress? At least once a week in my daily newspaper I see a full page...
Pope Francis’ generous approach to atheists got the world talking—and we should be glad it did. One of the pleasures of Pope Francis’ honeymoon period as...
Oscar Romero, now back on the path to sainthood, was called to conversion by ordinary Salvadorans. Among the welcome news coming on the heels of Pope Francis’...
There has been a death in my family—two actually, or 60,000, depending on how you count. To be specific, neither of my two beehives survived the winter of...
