James Martin, S.J.

Let rsquo s talk about Father Gill first nbsp Last night on the absolutely superb season finale of the AMC hit show ldquo Mad Men rdquo the priest came back in the midst of a show that considered abortion suicide infidelity confession forgiveness and mortality nbsp nbsp This season

Posada a nbsp moving film about unaccompanied immigrant children which we profiled in nbsp a January 2007 issue of nbsp America nbsp garnered nbsp the nbsp Best Short Documentary Award from the 2008 Orlando Hispanic Film Festival on October 12 nbsp Congratulations Felicidades to Mark McGregor

The ever-resourceful David van Biema religion reporter at Time and Time com has this provocative piece online on who should become a saint nbsp Some are already en route some are poised to step or more accurately be placed on the path some may simply surprise you nbsp See if your list ma

Last night in Scranton Pa nbsp Bishop Joseph nbsp Martino arrived nbsp unexpectedly at a church-sponsored forum on the presidential election and as the local newspaper puts it vehemently expressed his distaste for what was said about the church s stance on voting for pro-choice candidates

Were it not a Sunday tomorrow October 19 nbsp Masses would be celebrated to commemorate nbsp the Feast Day of the North American Martyrs the eight Jesuit priests and brothers martyred in Canada and New York the result of their work with native peoples in New France nbsp They are sometimes k

How do Senators McCain and Obama really stack up on all the life issues that have been championed by the Catholic church over the years nbsp Catholics United has a clever way of laying them out on their website for nbsp anyone uninterested in slogging through position papers nbsp Here it is Ja

Today s issue of The Wall Street Journal of all places has a few answers Right Louis and Zelie Martin who will be beatified this Sunday in Lisieux and their children nbsp Presumably the smallest–and most pious–one is St Therese of Lisieux nbsp James Martin SJ

See nbsp how David van Biema at Time and a few others answer that question something that nbsp a lot of people are asking in these parlous financial times nbsp Maybe the psalms can help you more than you think with your worries about mortgage-backed securities and your retirement plans James

Pope Benedict XVI has been speaking about his predecessor Pope Pius XII in very favorable terms lately specifically at the world Synod of Bishops when he explicitly mentioned Pius s response to the Holocaust nbsp All this has raised expectations that nbsp his beatification may be imminent nb