Who says Jesuits don t have alright--got game

Reuters reports on Pope Benedict s upcoming trip to Cuba and says that the Pope is offering Cuba the church s assistance should nbsp it move away from communism which he claims no longer works From the article Pope Benedict said on Friday communism no longer works in Cuba and that the Roman Cat

Jake Martin S J reviews two new working girl sitcoms and looks back at the surprisingly durable genre When Marlo Thomas mussed her hair for the first time during the opening credits of ldquo That Girl rdquo in 1966 the gesture marked a shift in how single women were perceived Since then

This week The Jesuit Post features excerpts from Fr Kevin O Brien s upcoming book The Ignatian Adventure published by Loyola Press Spiritual Exercises Ignatius gave the church the Spiritual Exercises as a testament to God rsquo s gentle persistent laboring in his life Over his lifetime Ig

His father had been a minister His grandfather as well So when he failed as an art dealer and began to reexamine his life it seemed clear to Vincent that God had a better plan for his life preaching the Gospel ldquo It is my fervent prayer and desire rdquo he told his brother ldquo that t

UPDATE Oops Heard a story was circulating today on this but did not note the date on this story was from Sept Vatican Insider is echoing an Italian daily report that Pope Benedict XVI is planning to resign in April Journalist Antonio Socci has confirmed the same in the Italian daily Libero F

How can the life of Walter Ciszek SJ help us to understand what it means to find God s will in our lives Often when we think about God s will we think of trying to figure it all out What is God s will What am I supposed to do One of the themes of this book has been the Ignatian model of di

I have to deliver a lecture next week in Minnesota on Catholic social thought on the environment a topic dear to me Checking the weather reports for that area I have noticed a high unseasonal warmth But I know of course that climate is not weather We can have overall global warming or c

The Tridentine Mass Why I Couldn rsquo t Go Back my blog post of March 8 evoked numerous comments mdash 63 to be exact These surely set me thinking Thanks to all who pitched in At this point I prefer not to revisit the debate but to move forward constructively in two directions

Tara McGuinness of the Center for American Progress has reviewed the GOP budget Path to Prosperity proposed yesterday by Wisconsin Rep Paul Ryan and she is not happy with what she s found so far She offered an analysis to the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good According to McGuiness

In the category of a picture speaks a thousand words comes this rare photo of Fr Walter Ciszek SJ the nbsp U S Jesuit whose canonization nbsp process has been given the green light by the Vatican See nbsp post below nbsp The provenance nbsp Someone sent it to me last year but I ve com

Our own associate editor Kerry Weber is interviewed by Camille D Arienzo RSM as part of her NCR column conversations with Sister Camille nbsp Inspiring stuff nbsp Kerry s discussion of her image of God is particularly compelling nbsp nbsp What is your image of God When I was teaching in A

Thanks to Greg Kandra at Deacon s Bench for alerting us to this great bit of news from the Diocese of Allentown the Vatican has given its formal approval for the canonization process for Walter Ciszek SJ 1904-1984 to begin nbsp Father Ciszek an American-born Jesuit and the author of With Go

Cambridge MA For readers who want more than the written word I was honored to give the Loyola Lecture at Le Moyne College in Syracuse last week on March 14 and it has already been posted at the college website You can find the video here I am introduced by Dr Fred Glennon Chair of the Depar

nbsp I can count on one hand the number of my close friends who attend church regularly even using the most generously Protestant definition of ldquo regularly rdquo The de-churching of my friends includes those from all chapters of my life mdash childhood college and now as a working profes

On Wednesday morning Jan 13 in Tehran a motorcyclist drove alongside a grey Peugot and affixed a magnetic bomb to its exterior The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan a scientist deputy director of Iran rsquo s uranium enrichment lab He was the fifth nuclear scientist murdered since 2007 For

From Ciudad Nueva courtesy of Mirada Global The announcement is a surprise but not such a big surprise The FARC will no longer get its funds through kidnapping civilians and it will liberate 10 policemen they rsquo ve been holding since 1998 and 1999 The announcement didn rsquo t come as such a

Across the years I have thought of myself as a settler, not a pioneer.