In this humorous memoir, New York Times bestselling author Father James Martin tells the story of a busboy, dishwasher, caddy, usher, factory worker, bank teller, and corporate tool and, finally, a Je...

In this sweet memoir, Jesuit priest Martin (Learning to Pray) reminisces about the summer jobs that prepared him for his calling...

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

Texas A&M University’s restrictions on teaching race or gender reinstall an older moral architecture, asking universities to prepare students fo...

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The question comes up once a year: Why are we celebrating a feast for a building?

After participating in "Good Morning America" co-anchor Gio Benitez's confirmation Mass, some conservative Catholics unleashed a barrage of online attacks on Jesuit Fr. James Martin. Martin's crime? B...

"The best introduction to Dorothy Day and the spirit of the Catholic Worker."—Jeff Dietrich, The Catholic Agitator "Jim Forest's book about Dorothy Day is much like the grand lady herself: disarming i...

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Synodal representatives in Italy voted overwhelmingly to accept documents calling for greater openness to LGBTQ people. Italian bishops will weigh in next.

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The key is to continue to be in relationship with a God whom we sometimes don’t understand.

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When it comes to money, our focus should be clear.

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Jesus knows you well. But there is also an invitation to make yourself known to Jesus in the spiritual life.

“The definition of desolation is notoriously slippery,” Father James Martin writes. “It is not simply a period of dryness in prayer, which is common to everyone.”

Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...

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This week on “The Spiritual Life,” Father James Martin speaks with Stephen Colbert about his experience of being a “fallen away” Catholic and returning to the faith.

The “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.

We are missing a powerful and vivid symbol of the love of Jesus, writes Father James Martin. For the Sacred Heart is nothing less than an image of the way that Jesus loves us.

Jesus not only reached out to those on the margins—one of his most famous stories, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, was a story about someone from a hated group.

How a Catholic sister from Louisiana became the American church’s foremost minister to transgender people.

The Spiritual Life with Fr. James Martin, S.J., is a podcast that focuses on how people experience God in their prayer and their daily lives.

Pressure on state legislatures to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms has only increased in recent years. What is usually forgotten, however, is that the Bible itself contains the most powerful ar...