James Martin, S.J.

The Editorial Board of America is proud to announce that The Most Reverend Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury is the 2009 recipient of the Campion Award The award is given on a regular basis to a noted Christian person of letters nbsp It is named after St Edmund Campion S J who is patr

This nbsp comes from CathNews the Australian Catholic news website nbsp The text is from a link to the Broken Bay Institute-University of Newcastle s new program in liturgical studies nbsp Strong words indeed World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation Fr Anscar Chupungco OSB challen

Who knew Our managing editor Robert Collins SJ also directs an adult-initiation program at a nearby Paulist parish St Paul the Apostle nbsp So he s always on the lookout for good catechetical material nbsp The other day he nbsp came upon this truly amazing resource on the USCCB website

Pope Benedict XVI s message for today s World Day of Communications nbsp encourages us to nbsp use every means of communications to spread the Gospel nbsp Amen nbsp The spread of multimedia communications and its rich menu of options might make us think it sufficient simply to be present on t

Brother nbsp Jim Boynton SJ pictured right the former vocation director of the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus nbsp full disclosure a good nbsp friend recently started after finishing up his nbsp vocation work nbsp a new assignment in November nbsp with Jesuit Refugee and Migran

Pierre Panet mgr williamsonby labanlieuesex Bishop Richard Williamson the Society of St Pius X bishop and famous nbsp for his comments on the Holocaust nbsp has said astonishingly that the discussions between the Society of St Pius X and the Vatican are a dialogue of the deaf nbsp

Commenting on the coverage by the media of the crisis in Haiti here on NET the network of the Brooklyn Diocese nbsp On the one hand one the other hand is here

As someone who spent most of his childhood summers well two weeks of them every August at the Jersey Shore and as The New Yorker points out no one ever says Jersey Shore it s either the Shore or the Jersey Shore I lament this bizarre nbsp series nbsp now coming to the close of its fi

This good news was sent to us from the Ignatian Pro-Life Net- work led by US Jesuits Students from Jesuit universities and high schools from across the country will gather in DC this week for the annual lsquo March for Life rsquo there they will pray sing chant and march in support of the unb

All of us are called to be saints as the Second Vatican Council reminded us in nbsp its use of the term the universal call to holiness Holiness is not just the duty of a few said Mother Teresa but of nbsp everyone nbsp We do this nbsp by being loving charitable and devout in our lives no ma