Faith & Religion
Billy Joel’s Weaponized Nostalgia and Spiritual Truth
I’m not sure what I thought pop culture would be like when my generation got into middle age. I certainly didn’t expect it would be dominated by ideas and figures from my 1980s childhood released into the wild again and again like some monstrous zombie army, hungry for our eyeballs and the reanimated feels of…
Read MoreUnitas, Caritas, Veritas: Understanding the Augustinian Spirituality of Pope Leo XIV
In the weeks since American Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV, he’s returned more than once to a few key concepts. “I would like our first great desire to be for a united church,” he said in the homily at his installation Mass, “a sign of unity and communion which becomes a leaven…
Read MoreA Synodal Conclave
One of Pope Francis’ pivotal legacies is his revival of the Catholic Church’s practice of synodality. It is also one of the least understood and most contested innovations of his papacy. The very word sounds odd and it’s certainly not as appealing or well known as catchphrases such as “Who am I to judge?” or…
Read MoreReaching for Himself: Bob Dylan and Bill Richardson, S.J.
The music icon found one of his savviest interpreters in a Jesuit priest
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