nbsp Not since the Second Vatican Council has a gathering of representatives of the world rsquo s Catholic bishops sparked such interest and controversy as the extraordinary synod of bishops on the family which opens in the Vatican on October 5 While the agenda is very wide public interest has ma

Pope Francis issued a heartfelt call to his brother Jesuits worldwide to ldquo row together rdquo with him as he rows with considerable effort in lsquo the barque of Peter rdquo and to ldquo pray a lot rdquo because ldquo the night and the powers of darkness are always close rdquo nbsp H

Let us remember our history: the Society “was given the grace not only to believe in the Lord, but also to suffer for His sake”. We do well to remember this.

In the aftermath of the Scottish Independence referendum last week it is becoming clear that for many on the defeated ldquo Yes rdquo side this was only Round One On the day following the vote U K Prime Minister David Cameron declared in an early-morning statement delivered outside 10 Downin

In an essay titled quot The Scentsory Adventure quot from his book The Thorny Grace of It a delightful recent gift nbsp Brian Doyle writes quot You know what no one talks about when they talk about the Mass The panoply of scents the plethora of sensory adventures that enter through the door

Jesus once said something about loving our enemies That rsquo s a hard thing to do and it is especially hard with an enemy as vicious as the Islamic State Yet there have been times mostly late at night when I think I rsquo ve made some progress in doing so Maybe I rsquo m being tricked by the

Positive press greeted the announcement on Sept 20 of the nbsp appointment of Bishop Blase Cupich of nbsp Spokane Wash to succeed Cardinal Francis George as archbishop of Chicago Some media view what they deem as Pope Francis rsquo first major episcopal appointment in the U S as a message fro

Perhaps encouraged by that David Brooks column in which he swoons over the ldquo responsible elite rdquo people in Mitt Romney rsquo s circle are putting out vibrations of another presidential run in 2016 The Washington Examiner rsquo s Byron York revealed all in a Wednesday column ldquo Romne

Cambridge MA It is more than enough of an opportunity for those of us who are Christian to be mindful during the next days that Jews are observing a series of most intense and varied holy days mdash from last night September 24 Rosh Hashanah year 5775 to Yom Kippur October 3 the day of Ato

Saying that you’d like God to get his own TV show is like saying you want the studio cameras to focus in on the light.

Vatican Radio is reporting that nbsp Pope Francis has removed the Bishop of Ciudad del Este Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano nbsp He has appointed Ricardo Jorge Valenzuela R os Bishop of Villarrica del Esp ritu Santo as Apostolic Administrator According to a statement released by the Vatican on

Pope Francis has deposed the controversial bishop of Ciudad del Este in Paraguay Monsignor Rogelio Ricardo Livieres Plano by relieving him of his duties as bishop of that diocese and declaring the see vacant nbsp The bishop was accused not only of incardinating a priest into his diocese in 2005

At Forbes Daniel R Porterfield writes about the success of the Cristo Rey Network of Jesuit schools What was brand new about Cristo Rey however was the Jesuits rsquo idea for financing the enterprise mdash by recruiting businesses all across Chicago to pay a flat fee to the school in exchange f

Open Letter Denounces ISIS violence in Iraq and Syria

'What Is an American Muslim?" by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im

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'Brothers,' by George Howe Colt

It may take a dramatic divine gesture to get the world to act on climate change.