Tonight I gave a presentation to a group of students and staff at Santa Clara regarding recent research on the relationship between spiritual practice and sexual decision-making in the lives of college students No one who works with the current generation of college students will be surprised t

Readers of America magazine are already familiar whether they know it or not with the work of Don Doll the award-winning Jesuit photographer who teaches at Creighton University His gorgeous photos have been part of our magazine for several years Over the past several weeks his photos of th

Here s a link to the complete text of Father Adolfo Nicolas s freewheeling meeting with the press on Jan 25 in which he says among other things that he s neither Father Kolvenbach Father Arrupe or even Elvis Some journalists say that I am like Arrupe or like Kolvenbach half and

While the commentariat has covered the religious aspects of the GOP primary extensively few are looking at how religion may affect the Democratic race They should eight of the 22 states that vote next Tuesday have populations that are more than 30 Roman Catholic including the biggest prizes of

There are so many passages in the Bible that lend themselves to the development of an ecojustice perspective Such a section is found in the Wisdom of Solomon a relatively little known and even less frequently cited source of ancient Israelite wisdom It is a reinterpretation of an earlier traditio

Listening to Juan Williams on Fox News cite Hillary Clinton s continued lead in national polls as evidence that the race was still hers to lose two words came to mind Rudy Giuliani If anyone ever wondered about the value of a national poll the ever-shrinking candidacy of Giuliani should persua

Senator Barack Obama went fishing for endorsements and landed the equivalent of a thirty-five pound Cape Cod striper Senator Ted Kennedy has decided to endorse Obama the big winner in Saturday s Democratic primary in South Carolina This is big Kennedy s titanic political figure casts a hu

Analysts will spend the next few days sorting through the exit poll data checking crosstabs to determine how and why Barack Obama managed to lap Hillary Clinton beating her by 28 points 55 to 27 in South Carolina s primary But three facts stand out Hillary Clinton lost the female vote

From the latest press release from GC35 Father General Adolfo Nicol s capped an eventful week as the newly elected superior general of the Jesuits with a private audience with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI The Saturday audience began with a photo session and then the two sat down for a warm

St Luke tells about the conversion then missioning of St Paul on three different occasions Acts 9 22 and 26 nbsp Though the number of details which change in these three accounts is great there is one repeated phrase which runs through them all nbsp Saul Saul why do you persecute Me nb

This essay aired as a commentary on NPR Weekend Edition on Sunday January 6 I watch what I do to see what I really believe Belief and faith are not just words It s one thing for me to say I m a Christian but I have to embody what it means I have to live it So writing this essay and kn

Excerpts from a new interview taken from the CNS wire service with the new Jesuit Superior General in which he dilates on the Jesuits relationship with the Vatican the way that Asia changed him and his admiration for Gandhi ROME CNS by Cindy Wooden -- The obedience affection and

The GOP debate last night lacked the rough-and-tumble of previous such efforts Moderator Tim Russert frustrated at his inability to start a skirmish said afterwards that he felt like the candidates had signed a non-aggression pact before the show This niceness probably helps McCain whose South

Homosexuals says the Catechism of the Catholic Church must be treated with respect compassion and sensitivity Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided No 2358 Would that John Gibson of Fox News applied that dictum equally to the actor Heath Ledger who

When lecturing on Paul s first letter to Corinthians Daniel J Harrington S J my colleague at Weston Jesuit School of Theology tells our students that there are no problems in the Church today that did not exist in some form in the early church at Corinth This insight can be consoling

Bill Clinton had another tantrum yesterday The Clintons ran a highly deceptive radio ad attacking Obama a South Carolina official who supports Obama challenged its veracity and the press asked the former president about it Clinton blamed the Obama campaign for feeding the story to the media a

America has a new online article by Jesuit scholastic Sean Dempsey S J who was recently ordained a deacon and will be ordained a Catholic priest this coming June Dempsey is a pop-culture aficionado extraordinaire a vocation not often found among religious but crucial in my opinion for evang

Mark 3 1-6 the Gospel for today tells of Jesus curing of a withered hand In itself a noteworthy miracle an expression of good will of love But Mark sets the miracle in a context of controversy they continued to watch to see if Jesus would cure on the Sabbath and once he cured t

The 35th General Congregation is the first where the world has been able to follow along nearly in real time--thanks to the Internet--the workings of the Congregation Creighton s website and Don Doll s photos have helped many feel a sense of closeness to the proceedings Pictured above f

The annual March for Life has come and gone One of its more bizarre qualities is the way GOP presidents participate by recorded message or telephone hook-up but never in person This began during Ronald Reagan s presidency when some advisors did not want a photo beamed around the world of Reaga