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    I went to see the new movie The Way this week, and I can warmly recommend it. It's one of those movies that causes you to ask "How can they make an interesting movie out of that?” Recent examples...
    With two -- count 'em -- church annulment documents carefully stashed in a fireproof file box, I vowed I'd never get remarried. The annulment process revealed all that had been predictably wrong and I, for one, was not going...
    The last straw which led to Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity was the voice of a child, playing a game in which he chanted "take and read, take and read." The voice led Augustine to pick up the Bible...
    Dean Brackley, SJ, died recently.  He was an American Jesuit who moved to the University of Central America in 1989 shortly after the murders of Jesuits there.  Jim Martin, SJ,  reprints a powerful article he wrote about what the...
    A couple of Jesuit editors have noted that the death of Steve Jobs elicited emotion akin to the to the feelings religious believers have for saints.  Jim Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, draws seven parallels...
    Rick Malloy, SJ, VP at the University of Scranton, prods students to ask some questions: Will a man or woman who had multiple sexual partners make a good husband or wife? Is hooking up good training for ...
    In 1534, Ignatius and his companions went to the church of Sainte Pierre in the village of Montmartre north of Paris, and  took vows to work together as a company.  It was an important moment because this band of...
    Our sister blog Picturing God: Faces and Traces of the Divine celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow. The blog has featured images of nature, people, objects, and places, all evoking God's presence. I love it. Many of the pictures are extraordinary....
    Something to think about | When a man feels condemned, his creativity and his power to love, his joy in life as well as his sense of wholeness are blocked. When that same man suddenly or gradually understands that...
    Here's some good advice from Anthony Lusvardi, SJ, writing on the the Whosoever Desires blog: Stay away from motives.  If you find yourself attacking somebody's motives, you are almost certainly violating Annotation 22.Attributing presumed motives to others shifts the...

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