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Are Jesuit Hoops the Strongest?

With powerful programs such as Georgetown, Gonzaga, Xavier, Creighton, and Marquette, Jesuit basketball is surely the strongest among religious-affiliated Division I schools.  Or is...

You Spot it, You Got It

Recently I read a column in a Catholic publication that was about an important and controversial topic. Yet it was so full of...

Prayer of All Things

"The earth is the only road that can lead us to heaven. There is no other. And the earth is not an idea, an...

Some Definite Service

I've already mentioned The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien, SJ. Sprinkled throughout are prayers and poems. I really liked this one from John Henry Cardinal...

Why Edgar Allen Poe Liked the Jesuits

Church historian Pat McNamara writes about how the Jesuits at St. John's College (later Fordham University) befriended Edgar Allen Poe in the last years...

Losing One’s Life

Luis Espinal, SJ, is a Jesuit hero I hadn't heard about.  He was a Spanish Jesuit who worked for social justice in Bolivia.  He...

A Good Camino

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...

The Blessing of Married Couples

With two -- count 'em -- church annulment documents carefully stashed in a fireproof file box, I vowed I'd never get remarried. The annulment...

Do Not Delay

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...

What the Poor Teach the Comfortable

Dean Brackley, SJ, died recently.  He was an American Jesuit who moved to the University of Central America in 1989 shortly after the murders...

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