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10 Ways to Make Meaningful Connections in the Digital Age
Smartphones are supposedly ruining our lives and making us incapable of having real conversations. But phones, like other modern means of communication, are tools. We can surely misuse them, but we can...
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The Mystery in the Mundane
In Madrid we live in apartment flats (pisos) and our house chapel is a converted bedroom – a rather small bedroom. For our community of fifteen fully grown Jesuits, it can be a tight fit. The space is...
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Prayer During Tragedy
Events in our national life are often sadly familiar. That is certainly true of the Orlando shootings this past weekend. Mass violence. Contentious claims about Islam and domestic terrorism. The nation...
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Real Parents
You’re not my real parents. I said that to them at least once in my life. I followed the comment by running away from home, a slammed door followed by a short jaunt down Lola Drive with my blankee tied...
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The Wounded Church: Pro-Life and Social Justice Catholics Remain Divided
If there has been one overused line in the past few weeks, it’s the trope: “The election taught us…” We didn’t need this election to teach us that our country is polarized or that there is no “Catholic...
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Millions Marching: From Loneliness to Communion
A few years ago I found myself in an airport terminal with time to spare before boarding my flight. Ambling among the gates, I stopped to peruse a shelf of paperbacks until The Opposite of Loneliness...
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A Message of Hope in the Desert of Fear
Being a news junkie today is to be hit daily by an avalanche of bad news, a lot of it sensationalistic. News of mass shootings, deportations of the parents of young children, and the rise in hateful...
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When I Drink
“Okay, mijo, make the number three with your fingers and hold them together.” My grandfather’s hard, gruff voice could cause a nine-year-old to quiver. “Place your fingers at the bottom of the glass,...
View ArticleTime for a New New Deal
The summer before I entered the Jesuits was a magical one, full of sunsets, road trips, awesome Western thunderstorms, bison, and a cave. I was an interpretive ranger at Wind Cave National Park in...
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