Francis Xavier, meet Ignatius Loyola: re-imagining a famous encounter
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about pop culture at jimmcdermott.substack.
Posted inFaith
An interview with former Jesuit General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach
On Sept. 13, 1983, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach was elected 29th superior general. He retired in 2008.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Three Jesuits who knew Pedro Arrupe reflect on his legacy
Three former general assistants consider Father Arrupe’s legacy.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Illness, Here Is Thy Sting: A review of ‘Sicko’
Larry and Donna Smith had it good. He worked as an engineer, she as a newspaper editor. They had a happy family and their health—the middle-class American dream. Then Donna was diagnosed with cancer; and Larry had a heart attack, and then another, and another. And the real nightmare began. Alt
Posted inOf Many Things
Of Many Things
Being from Chicago, I have a weakness, a flaw really, for casting aspersions upon the Green Bay Packers, a football team from rural Wisconsin whose quarterback is so old they may need to provide him with a walker and an oxygen tent. Some-times I don’t even realize I’m doing it. I
Posted inThe Good Word
Liturgy on the Web Update
For those interested in one more take on the reinstatement of the Latin liturgy Commonweal has posted the first of four articles in their upcoming issue about the change The title says it all– A Step Backward Author Rita Ferrone points out some striking problems such as the exclusion of women
Posted inThe Good Word
The Welcome
The gospel this week dwells on the theme of hospitality — that which we offer both to one another and to God and that which God offers to us The intimacy and in a sense extravagance with which the sinful woman welcomes Jesus is sharply contrasted with that of Peter the Pharisee who neither welc
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“Word” Columns for the Readings for Sunday, June 17th
This Sunday is the 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time and Father s Day It s strange but true Because of when Easter fell there was no 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time either in 2001 or 2004 As a result neither John Donahue nor Dianne Bergant ever wrote about this Sunday s set of readings for A
Posted inThe Good Word
“Word” Columns for this Sunday’s Readings
This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ For Daniel Harrington s comments on the readings click here For Dianne Bergant s 2004 comments on the readings click here For John Donahue s 2001 comments on the readings click here Jim McDermott SJ
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The God Who Escapes Our Grasp
One of the many proofs that God has a sense of humor and a wicked one is that Jesuit ordinations and first masses in the United States often fall on the weekend of Trinity Sunday In my experience for the newly ordained Jesuit the Trinity is the theological equivalent of Charlie Brown s friend