Maybe the reformed hearts at the Eucharistic Congress will leave Indianapolis with a new attitude when faced with signs like “Deport Them All.”

I cannot tell you exactly why I am getting emotional, except to say that maybe I am sorely in the mood for something simple and nonaffected and happy and endearing and guileless. (Maybe everyone is?)

I am always going to be let down by humans, but never by the One who is fully human and fully divine.

A Reflection for Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

Poems like these at the very least deserve more eyes on them, and we are more than happy to make that happen.

Jesuit brothers of the world, unite!

A Reflection for Friday of the Third Week of Easter, by Joe Hoover, S.J.

In one way or another, these collections bear the traces of the divine, of the needful Christ.

Amid all the wrestling with theology we do, maybe our job is also to notice what is being done to us. To behold the way God uses vexing things like conflict in the church to work on us, to purify us. 

Maybe the real message of this ad should be not that “God Gets Us” but that “We Don’t Get God.”