James Martin, S.J.

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For sighing comes more readily to me than food and my groans well forth like water Job 3 25 The drought currently plaguing Kenya has brought searing images of thirsty and hungry people into our living rooms or onto our computer screens nbsp Despite our sympathy sometimes it is hard to understan

Another Jesuit from Philadelphia I m a proud one tipped me off to this frankly alarming news story about the closing temporary they hope nbsp of all public libraries in the vast Philadelphia Library system including the nbsp massive Free Library of Philadelphia in Center City which has been

We re delighted to be able to offer you this online review of one of my favorite new movies of the summer the marvelous 500 Days of Summer nbsp In several interviews the actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel as well as the director nbsp Marc Webb nbsp made it clear that they wan

Okay I know it s not going to convince any hardcore atheists or maybe even to wavering agnostics nbsp But it s hard to look at these photos from the newly restored Hubble telescope and not wonder how nbsp someone can still nbsp doubt God s hand in something nbsp like this nbsp nbsp Random this

What do you get when you cross a nbsp top-flight theologian with one of the summer s hottest movies nbsp This provocative review of the sci-fi hit District 9 by Fr Robert Barron now on our online Culture section nbsp The new movie about a ragtag band of lost malnourished aliens nbsp who in

Tired of controversy nbsp How about something as Monty Python used to say completely different nbsp Here goes Webster Bull runs a company called Memoirs Unlimited which helps authors write personal and private family memoirs nbsp In 1988 he and his wife started a company called Commonweal

From the Associated Press story on Bishop Martino s resignation this morning at a news conference where he was accompanied by Cardinal Justin Rigali the archbishop of Philadelphia nbsp and Bishop John Doherty Martino s auxiliary For some time now there has not been a clear consensus among th

One reader asked for the text of the letter from Senator Kennedy to Pope Benedict XVI hand-delivered by President Obama to the pope on his recent visit to Vatican City portions of which were read yesterday by Cardinal McCarrick at the graveside service nbsp The full text is below along with the

According to Michael Paulson at the Boston Globe in an article earlier today Cardinal Sean O Malley who gave the final commendation at the funeral of Senator Kennedy was under intense pressure not to afford the senator whose deep faith and life of prayer have become more public in the past few d