Matt Emerson

For my birthday this year a friend gave me a nbsp collection of writings by Karl Rahner The collection is titled The Great Church Year The Best of Karl Rahner 39 s Homilies Sermons and Meditations As you 39 d expect every paragraph edifies Here I want to share nbsp a poetic nbsp passage th

In a recent op-ed in the New York Times columnist Bill Keller called for the Catholic Church to lifts its requirement for mandatory celibacy for priests This requirement wrote Keller ldquo has driven away many good priests rdquo and has bred ldquo a culture of sexual exceptionalism and denial

Over the past week I 39 ve discussed a few essays one by Fr Raymond Schroth S J in America another by Samuel Goldman in First Things which have lamented the decline in the humanities Those essays were long commentaries on reports that echoed the same concerns Among a few differences in ou

Why are fewer students studying history, literature, philosophy, languages and the arts?

“Redemptor Hominis” is a masterful overview of the meaning of Christ.

quot Jerry Brown Latin Scholar and One-Time Almost Priest quot This is the headline for an Atlantic article that summarizes the highlights from an interview that Brown governor of California gave to The Atlantic Readers might not know about Brown 39 s Jesuit past The article notes His relig

With whom do we journey? Matthew tells us of the wise men; Luke writes of the shepherds. For both groups, news of Jesus’ birth comes to them in community.

Who says education doesn 39 t pay well Apparently you just have to find the right role and school According to an article in yesterday 39 s New York Times Forty-two presidents of private colleges were paid more than a million dollars in 2011 up from 36 for the previous two years according to t

In the latest issue of America in an essay titled quot Saving the Humanities quot Raymond Schroth S J responds to quot The Heart of the Matter quot nbsp a report recently issued by the Commission on the Humanities amp Social Sciences for the American Academy of Arts amp Sciences quot