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In today's first reading from Acts, we hear the first of the three accounts of Paul's conversion that we find in Acts, and Paul insists that he actually saw the Risen Christ. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20110125_1.htm

'Instructing the ignorant' means emulating Philip who, when he encountered the eu**ch who confessed that he did not understand the words of the prophet Isaiah, ‘proclaimed to him the good news about Jesus', as we hear in our first reading: https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/instruct-ignorant

Time for another religious pope?! Apparently so!

Time for a religious pope? As the cardinal electors prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel tomorrow, Gemma Simmonds CJ suggests that it would be a gift to the Church if the man they elect to the See of Peter has an approach to authority that has been formed in a religious community. As the Church and the world prepare for the co...

Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell left Rome on the English mission on this day in 1586. Just a few weeks after their arrival in England, their superior Fr William Weston was arrested and put on trial. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/jesuit-narrative-gunpowder-plot

The social and religious context in which a young Dutch man, who was born on 8 May 1521, entered the Society of Jesus was not all that different to the one in which we find ourselves today, writes Thomas Flowers SJ. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/why-would-anyone-want-be-jesuit-today-wisdom-and-example-peter-canisius

‘No matter where we are in life, we are always somewhere on the Easter path.’ https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/easter-path

'Is this the kind of thing that really goes on at a conclave, how we came to be presented with Francis or how his successor is being determined? Who knows?' https://www.jesuit.org.uk/news/conclave---a-film-review

Fr Damian Howard SJ — Catholic Chaplain at the University of Oxford and former Provincial of the Jesuits in Britain —reflected on the legacy of Pope Francis in a recent interview with BBC News. https://www.jesuit.org.uk/news/we-mourn-a-brother-fr-damian-howard-sj-offers-heartfelt-tribute-to-pope-francis-in-bbc-interview

The Holy Spirit was not just an external force in the Acts of the Apostles; Stephen, the first martyr whom we read about today, is typical of those said to be ‘full of faith and the Holy Spirit’. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20120509_1.htm

Sigmund Freud was born on this day in 1856. His is probably the most familiar psychological approach to faith, and he was critical of it, but do other models that seem to be ‘faith-friendly’ really offer a more positive interpretation? https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20130611_1.htm

Today is the anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx in 1818. To what extent did Das Kapital shape Russia in the years leading up to 1917? Dairmid Gunn explains how Marxist thought tapped into stirrings among the Russian intelligentsia. https://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/das-kapital-and-russian-revolution

Join the Jesuits in Britain for online prayer next Wednesday evening at 8pm GMT. Everyone is welcome – just bring your openness and curiosity, and of course your imagination! https://www.jesuitinstitute.org/events/imagine-may-2