Mitch Pacwa SJ host of EWTN Live interviews the great Jesuit historian John Padberg SJ on the history of the Society of Jesus nbsp Father Padberg director and genearl editor of the Institute of Jesuit Sources has forgotten more about Jesuit history than I know nbsp The show is well worth

London Yesterday in Westminster around 200 Catholic bishops charity directors politicians Lords academics and thinkers gathered under the ponderous title of Renewing a sense of social responsibility to consider how the Church in England and Wales should respond to a new era in the economy an

One of the most fascinating and startling things regarding the teaching on the Church in Matthew 18 the Ecclesial Discourse is how much of it focuses on the nature of Christian leadership as modeled on the child and the treatment of children by the apostles called disciples by Matthew Chapter

Paul Theroux likes trains he has roamed the world and ridden trains and written great books with neat names like Ghost Train to the Eastern Star or The Old Patagonia Express In his upcoming book he brings us a spiritual sense of the meaning of travel To be released in May Tao of Travel Enli

In a blunt lecture on Monday at Marquette University in Milwaukee Wis Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin nbsp made what to my mind is nbsp a stunning admission about the sexual abuse crisis in the church nbsp With perhaps two exceptions he has not encountered a real and unconditional admiss

If you haven t already I hope you ll read Christopher Pramuk s moving article on reproductive loss in the current issue And if you re so moved join the ongoing conversation in the article comments boxes Professor Pramuk has graciously agreed to take part in the discussion For more resources on

Father James Martin on the worst mistake he made working as a young Jesuit among the East African refugees who settled in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

From Mirada Global an appreciation of two geniuses of poetry and art Nicol aacute s Guill eacute n and Osvaldo Guayasam iacute n Nicol aacute s Guill eacute n was born in Camaguey Cuba in 1902 while Osvaldo Guayasam iacute n was born in Quito Ecuador in 1919 It isn rsquo t trivial to get

After my post yesterday which mentioned among other things my regret that while in Madrid on 24-25 March I couldn t follow the Courtyard of the Gentiles event at Notre Dame in Paris a friend who lives in the French capital and went to one of the sessions has written me a damning description of th

There will be two major differences between the global interfaith prayer for peace which Pope Benedict has called for in Assisi on 27 October and the two previous ones called by Pope John Paul II in 1986 and 2002 nbsp The first is that the representatives of the different faiths will not actuall

Orbis Books has just brought out a new edition of nbsp This Our Exile A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa with a new afterword nbsp They have nbsp given permission to reprint the first chapter of the book as a way of introducing readers to the story of my two years of working w

If you ve been wondering how badly the sex abuse crisis has hurt the bishops ability to speak on any moral ethical challenges in modern civic life listen to the rhetorical bombs being dropped in New Hampshire I know a state that doesn t exactly spring to the fore when contemplating overheated pol

Not only will many readers here have direct experience with decades of marriage themselves of ministering to those engaged or of officiating at weddings a good number will be 18-22 year old persons themselves who will have an interest in marriage as they may be considering it someday and at l

As I was reading Michael Winerip s article this morning in the New York Times titled Teenagers Speak Up for Lack of Faith on the rise of atheist and agnostic clubs in U S high schools I was drawing parallels to the secular music scenes with which I am familiar It has been my perception con

A great new series from the U S nbsp Jesuit Conference on the path to priesthood called P2P and featuring a soon-to-be-ordained Radmar Jao nbsp Follow nbsp Radmar as he and several of his brother Jesuits nbsp move closer towards ordination this year nbsp Radmar s nbsp ordination will be o

This kind of incident happens to priests more frequently than one might think nbsp A few months ago on a commuter train I was in my collar and I heard a woman say to her small son Don t get near that man nbsp This is from Archbishop Timothy Dolan s blog It was only the third time it had happ

The story of Robert Drinan's decade in Congress continues to raise troubling questions