James Martin, S.J.

As the president s appearance at ND comes closer and closer and now with some of the volume on the controversy turned down The Anchoress argues that the church not miss nbsp a real teaching moment and adopt a calm and pastoral approach to present its teaching nbsp Amen to calm and pastoral

Margaret Thatcher once quoted Our Lord by saying As Jesus of Nazareth said and I think rightly nbsp nbsp So as Pope Benedict XVI said and I think rightly the Catholic Church needs to use all the methods of the modern media at its disposal to spread the good news nbsp I would add that t

Most priests nbsp would rather do ten baptisms than one wedding nbsp Or maybe two funerals nbsp Why nbsp Weddings are often nbsp overly focused on the incidentals the reception hall the reception food the dress the flowers the color of the groomsmen s tuxes than the um nbsp sacrament

As we hope you ve noticed with our new redesign in January we ve expanded our nbsp culture coverage in the magazine and to that end Father Christiansen has asked me to serve as America s first Culture editor nbsp Does that mean you re going to have to cultivate a British accent

Lent is coming to a close That news may prompt some people to say Thank God Lent is seen as a time of penance of giving things up mdash and of well seriousness Most people think Christianity is like that year-round Humorless Depressing Boring Christianity is seen as a path of deadly

Here is an article from ThinkingFaith the online journal of the British Jesuits about Pope Benedict s comments on condoms and AIDS written by someone who knows what he s talking about–Michael Czerny SJ director of the African Jesuit AIDS Network nbsp Here s Father Czerny The Church u

Do you know Father Daniel Lord SJ nbsp You would have if you were an American Catholic in the 1950s nbsp The legendary Jesuit priest was nbsp what Daniel Endres a doctoral student at Catholic University nbsp called nbsp a larger-than-life figure of the seeingly confidence cohesive preconcil

No email nbsp No surfing the web nbsp No Facebook nbsp No Twitter For forty days That s the recommendation of some Italian bishops nbsp nbsp See what a Jesuit priest on NPR has to say about all that James Martin SJ

Good question nbsp Bustedhalo has the answer in a multimedia presentation nbsp Oh and the Muzak was supposed to be a backdrop for someone who was waiting as one does in Purgatory James Martin SJ