The Rev. Dr. Will Adam, an official in the Anglican Communion, offers his perspective on the upcoming canonization of John Henry Newman.
Sean Salai
Sean Salai is the author of What Would Pope Francis Do? Bringing the Good News to People in Need (Our SundayVisitor, 2016) and holds an M.A. in Applied Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago. He also holds a B.A. in History from Wabash College, which he attended on scholarship from the Indianapolis Star, and where as editor of the campus newsmagazine he won several Indiana Collegiate Press Association (ICPA) awards as well as a Wesley Pruden Investigative Journalism Award from the Leadership Institute in 2001. Before entering the Jesuits in 2005, he was a metro desk newspaper reporter for The Washington Times and the Boca Raton News, where his articles were picked up by the Drudge Report and other national media outlets. He taught theology and coached forensics at Jesuit High School of Tampa in 2010-2014.
His freelance writing has appeared in America, National Catholic Reporter, Catholic World Report, Busted Halo, Crisis Magazine, Civil War Book Review, Homiletic & Pastoral Review, the Magis Spirituality Center's Spiritual Exercises Blog and other publications. He has been a contributing editor on two reference works for the non-profit Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) and his academic writing has appeared in three publications including the Heythrop Journal. He won two scholarships for outstanding collegiate journalism from the Washington DC-based American Alternative Foundation in 2001 and 2002. He is a graduate of the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University, the Leadership Institute’s Student Publications School in Virginia, the Collegiate Network Foreign Correspondent Course in Prague, and several other journalism programs. His prior internship experience included The Washington Times national desk and Policy Review magazine at the Heritage Foundation.
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Writer Joseph Pearce on the case for Shakespeare’s Catholicism
Mr. Pearce, an English-born Catholic critic, talks about the latest developments in research on Shakespeare’s faith life.
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Former NYU president John Sexton on faith, reason and free speech on campus
John Sexton, an American attorney and former president of New York University, reflects on serving as a Catholic educator at a secular university, increased political polarization in the U.S. and his newest book “Standing for Reason: The University in a Dogmatic Age.”
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What Hans Urs von Balthasar learned from St. Ignatius
Jacques Servais, S.J., speaks about the Swiss theologian and onetime Jesuit who wrote extensively on the process of discernment.
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A new dimension of Ignatian formation: laypeople training laypeople
Jim Caccamo speaks about the role of Ignation spirituality for laypeople in Jesuit institutions.
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Meet the bishop behind the updated Catholic Catechism
Archbishop Fisichella has served as the first president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization since 2010 and president of the International Council for Catechesis since 2013.
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Who was the priest who helped raise J. R. R. Tolkien?
The director of ‘Tolkien’ speaks about the influence of Father Francis Xavier Morgan.
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Catholic poet Dana Gioia: Is poetry still a spiritual vocation?
I never try to impose narrow, moral interpretations on art. Poetry is mostly about the joyful discoveries of language and imagination.
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When your boyfriend decides to become a priest
This is a story about two people who fell in love with each other and gave that love back to God in surrender.
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Why we need to design (and pay for) beautiful churches
An interview with Duncan G. Stroik, architect, author and professor of architecture at the University of Notre Dame.