Signs of the Times
Fighting inflation with one hand tied behind your back
By Thomas Reese — May 9, 2023
(RNS) — Congress must act decisively to rationalize the budgetary process.
The resurrection changes everything
By Thomas Reese — May 1, 2023
(RNS) — What Jesus' resurrection did to the disciples shows us what impact it should have on us.
Earth Day is a day of fear and hope
By Thomas Reese — April 17, 2023
(RNS) — Thanks to Pope Francis, the Catholic Church has gotten on the right side of history in fighting climate change.
Pope Benedict ‘closed’ Limbo and no one complained
By Thomas Reese — April 11, 2023
(RNS) — The church can never admit that something it was teaching or doing for centuries was dumb.
Christ continues to be crucified in today’s world
By Thomas Reese — April 4, 2023
(RNS) — Holy Week is a time to remember that what Jesus suffered is still going on in our world today.
Help! I have been replaced by an AI
By Thomas Reese — March 27, 2023
(RNS) — An artificially intelligent column on AI, by AI.
The lesson of Silicon Bank: Regulations protect good businesses as well as consumers
By Thomas Reese — March 20, 2023
(RNS) — Libertarian capitalists are hypocrites. They hate government regulations, but when they are in trouble, they expect the government to bail them out.
A reading list for seminarians and other Catholic conservatives
By Thomas Reese — March 14, 2023
(RNS) — Books changed my life. They can change yours too.
The legacy of a decade of Pope Francis
By Thomas Reese — March 6, 2023
(RNS) — Francis has opened windows that are difficult to close.
Is the FBI coming after traditional Catholics?
By Thomas Reese — March 2, 2023
(RNS) — The FBI is worried violent extremists will exploit and recruit radical-traditionalist Catholics.
What does it mean to be holy?
By Thomas Reese — February 20, 2023
(RNS) — It is not easy to be a follower of Jesus. Anyone who thinks it is, is simply not listening to him.
Trashing Pope Francis won’t make Congo’s complex problems simpler
By Thomas Reese — February 13, 2023
(RNS) — The pontiff also blamed the country's leaders for its problems.
Eucharistic prayer is the heart of the Eucharist
By Thomas Reese — February 7, 2023
(RNS) — The Eucharistic prayer is the most important and least understood prayer in the Mass.
The Jewish roots of the Eucharist
By Thomas Reese — January 31, 2023
(RNS) — Today’s Christian Eucharist is a combination of the Jewish synagogue service and Passover meal as adapted by the early Jewish Christians.
The Eucharist is about more than the real presence
By Thomas Reese — January 24, 2023
(RNS) — The Eucharist is not to make Jesus present so we can worship him.
Thomas Reese
Signs of the Times
The Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a Jesuit priest, has been a Senior Analyst at RNS since 2017. Previously he was a columnist at the National Catholic Reporter (2015-17) and an associate editor (1978-85) and editor in chief (1998-2005) at America magazine. He was also a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University (1985-98 & 2006-15) where he wrote Archbishop, A Flock of Shepherds, and Inside the Vatican. Earlier he worked as a lobbyist for tax reform. He has a doctorate in political science from the University of California Berkeley. He entered the Jesuits in 1962 and was ordained a priest in 1974 after receiving a M.Div from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.