James Martin, S.J.

In response to various reports over the upcoming apostolic constitution on admitting Anglicans into the church Cardinal William Levada through the Vatican s press officer Frederico Lombardi S J nbsp took the unusual step of issuing this clarification to some concerns raised by some journalis

If you rsquo re at the Church of St Ignatius Loyola in New York on Sunday and able to dodge the marathoners you rsquo ll see something that few people ever see a Jesuit final vow Mass After 21 years as a Jesuit I ve been invited as we say in the Society of Jesus to pronounce final vows nb

This week in the nbsp Culture section Leo O Donovan SJ our go-to guy for all things nbsp in the world of fine arts nbsp has a marvelous review in our current issue on the spiritual eye of the Russian painter Vasily Kandinsky here nbsp Kandinsky is the focus of a new exhibit at the Guggenheim M

Uwem Akpan the Nigerian Jesuit and author of the award-winning Say You re One of Them will be appearing on Oprah Winfrey s show on a worldwide webcast on Nov 9 nbsp the first time Ms Winfrey is doing this for one of her authors nbsp Here s how her website describes it On Monday Novembe

A tip from our friend Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for nbsp the London Tablet nbsp He wrote this morning Andrea Tornielli writes in Il Giornale today that publication of the new Apostolic Constitution establishing the entrance of Anglicans into the Catholic Church is being held up by a

When I was 9 years old I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a plastic statue of St Jude I can rsquo t imagine which magazine this could have been since my parents weren rsquo t in the habit of leaving Catholic publications lying around the house but apparently the photo of the statue was

Martin E Marty one of the leading Protestant theologians here in this country and an estimable presence in the ecumenical world has a strongly worded commentary on the Vatican s gambit to attract more Anglicans into the Catholic Church Bypassing forty years of Anglican-Roman Catholic conversatio

That s David Gibson s contention in the Washington Post today nbsp Here s Gibson Thus far Benedict s papacy has been one of constant movement and change the sort of dynamic that liberal Catholics — or Protestants — are usually criticized for pursuing In Benedict s case this liberalism serv

Is there a ahem dark side to all this vampire-mania in pop culture today nbsp Jake Martin SJ our prolific TV reviewer thinks so nbsp In this newest Culture online piece he turns his attention to HBO s hit show True Blood and points out what many commentators seem to have missed ldquo T

In this time of the apostolic visitation which is intended to investigate the quality of life of women religious in the post-Vatican II era I d like to share with you the story of nbsp a woman religious who died just this morning in Dubuque Iowa–one of the best people I ve ever known nbsp S