John A. Coleman

On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a

When I read Holland Carter s near rhapsodic review in the August 7th edition of The New York Times of the current exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture –you will excuse the pun–I knew I had to see that Gian Lorenzo Bernini show or bust

Largely triggered by the benign influence on me of Mary Evelyn Tucker the co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a 2003 conference for my book Globalization and Catholic Social Thought I have tried for the last five years to stay abreast of the literature on global warming and oth

He who sings well prays twice said Saint Augustine and we must not forget that caveat who sings well Music and prayer are closely inter-twined in the great world religions and no one in the twentieth century so inextricably linked the two than the composer and organist Olivier Messiaen

I was musing about the day now almost five years ago the War in Iraq began I had already determined that it was not–as a pre-emptive war and a war where the inspection of the UN inspectors was not uncovering any evidence of weapons of mass destruction–a just war No war which ended up being cal

It is widely assumed in Jesuit circles that when the Jesuit electors meet in Rome for their thirty-fifth general congregation they will issue a document treating globalization and environmental issues The major first focus of GC35 will be of course to elect a new superior general of the Jesuits