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Why Edgar Allen Poe Liked the Jesuits

Jim Manney

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

Jim Manney

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

Jim Manney

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

Meredith Gould

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

Tim Muldoon

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

Jim Manney

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

Steve Jobs and the Saints

Jim Manney

A couple of Jesuit editors have noted that the death of Steve Jobs elicited emotion akin to the to the feelings religious believers have...

Does Hooking Up Work?

Jim Manney

Rick Malloy, SJ, VP at the University of Scranton, prods students to ask some questions: Will a man or woman who had multiple sexual ...

Things Change in Montmartre

Jim Manney

In 1534, Ignatius and his companions went to the church of Sainte Pierre in the village of Montmartre north of Paris, and took vows...

A Year of Picturing God

Jim Manney

Our sister blog Picturing God: Faces and Traces of the Divine celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow. The blog has featured images of nature, people,...

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