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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 invective...

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...

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...

Steve Jobs and the Saints

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?

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

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