A suspect in the attack on the Phoenix parish has been arrested

In 1998, the celebrity evangelist addressed a conference to speak about technology and religion.

It rsquo s always a strange experience to read about home while abroad mdash seeing my own country scrutinized from the outside and recognizing my pride and shame compete as my sense of self is shaped by that scrutiny As an Irishman I travelled to the United States with a sense of entitlement to t

Lots of criticism is pouring in over the decision issued in Vergara v California in which Superior Court Judge Rolf M Treu struck down five California statutes regulating the quot tenure system quot for California public school teachers In a blog post at the New York Review of Books website N

In March 2013, I visited Iraq to attend the installation of Monsignor Louis Sako as the new Chaldean Catholic Patriarch. During that visit, I had a brief, yet startling, introduction to the country in the aftermath of dictatorship, invasion, occupation and civil war. The comments of my Ira

Fifteen months into his pontificate, Pope Francis continues to attract international attention. His gentle, welcoming demeanor and message of mercy and hope have enlivened the faithful and made even the hardest of heart take note. Not surprisingly, many observers try to understand Francis through tr

Although they have not yet reached full unity, Roman Catholics and Anglicans continue their dialogue, come together in prayer and work side by side, including on a new project to combat human trafficking around the world."I thank God that, as disciples sent to heal a wounded world, we stand tog

Pope Francis condemns 'increasingly intolerable' effects of the free market.

Employees will be eligible for tuition remission and scholarships for the university's online program. Is this the future of post-secondary education?

Among our many family photographs there is one of me as a toddler beginning to take tentative first steps I am reaching out my hand to my father who is beside me looking down at me with some concern ready to grasp mine I am dressed in a light-blue winter outfit with the hood pulled up over my

The spate of shooting incidents in America continued unabated into June: Oregon, Las Vegas, California.Cable news channels showed images of grieving families, disconsolate young people, grim-faced police chiefs and arrest photos of the suspects, be they alive or dead at their own hand."We'r

Pope Francis says our world economic system inevitably promotes military conflict.

During their June 11-13 spring general assembly in New Orleans, the nation's Catholic bishops voted to extend their Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty and to approve work on a limited revision of their quadrennial document aimed at guiding Catholics in election decisions.They also were urged

In order that his Most Sovereign Majesty King George III his ministers and his army of Redcoats would become aware of something significant arising among the nations a plain-spoken farmer-lawyer from Braintree Massachusetts stood up among the delegates of the Continental Congress and offered th

On The Ignatian Educator, reactions to court's controversial decision on teacher tenure system.

Fifty years after the resignation of President Nixon, literary editor Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., shares the untold story of three Jesuits and the three very different roles each played in the Watergate affair. Here you can take a look back at America's coverage of the political crime of the centu

Let the World Cup be a celebration of solidarity and peace, Pope Francis says

It may have been hard to imagine conditions for Christians in Iraq getting much worse than they already were but two days ago they did Insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ISIL apparently at the time only lightly armed swept through Mosul Iraq rsquo s second largest city

Fifty-eight-year old Luis recalled his grandfather Ignacio as being so domineering that he could command others with his eyes ldquo If we were doing something wrong hellip he talked to you with his eyes With his eyes he told you no nbsp And with his eyes he told you to go outside nbsp H

In October of 2013 in Chicago the Superior General of the Society of Jesus Fr Adolfo Nicol s S J spoke to representatives from the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities In his address Fr Nicol s reflected on some of the themes of Chris Lowney 39 s book Heroic Leadership Best