In All Things

The news from New Haven is that former British Prime Minister and recent convert to Catholicism Tony Blair will teach a seminar at Yale University next year on Faith and Globalization Or considering his side of the pond Globalisation Blair will serve as the Howland Distinguished Fellow

A reminder to America s readers that we are conducting as part of our upcoming centennial celebration an essay contest on the topic of The Case for God Secular and religious media alike have been abuzz over the past year about the sudden flurry of books by aggressive and polemically-minde

More sartorial commentary Keith Pecklers S J has a provocative article in the latest London Tablet on Pope Benedict s return to some of the more formal vesture of the church Father Pecklers is Professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Professor of Liturgical History a

Okay okay I know that this is somewhat inside-baseball but I also know that there are several readers who are interested in things Jesuit and also not a few Jesuits who read this blog and even more who read the mag In any event as the General Congregation winds down here is something t

Word has come from an anonymous but reliable source that on Tuesday of this Holy Week the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets in Louisville familiar to any fan of Thomas Merton will be named Merton Square It was there that Merton in 1958 stopping in town for a visit to his physician s

Do you read The Anchoress That s the nom de blog of one of the more literate and more lively Catholic writers scribbling in the blogosphere Sure she may not be what some of our St Louis Jesuit-loving F J-friendly Catholic Worker Jesuit-educated readers might be used to from our ma

One of the first ethical lessons we learn as children is to play by the rules All of us can remember a playground bully wagging his finger when the game was slipping from his grasp trying to bend the rules so that he could win That was all that mattered him winning The solipsism of the play

Long before the telephone radio television and the Internet folklorists claim a joke still traveled at roughly the speed of light For some reason call it human nature jokes rank high on the list of topics for social communication Societies prize a good comedian which can be seen from the

John McCain faces a well nigh impossible challenge over the next few weeks How to consolidate the conservative base which still broke for Mike Huckabee Tuesday in Texas without forfeiting his reputation as a maverick and his appeal to Independent voters Hillary Clinton s wins in Ohio and Texas