Faith, Faith and Reason

Love Will Decide Everything: Pedro Arrupe recovered the Ignatian ‘mysticism of open eyes.’

by Kevin F. Burke November 12, 2007

Remembering Father Pedro Arrupe on the centennial of his birth.

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Rejecting the death penalty advances the culture of life

by Blase J. Cupich January 29, 2007

In 2007, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, at the time bishop of Rapid City asked: Is the right to life conditional, or is it unconditional? Can men and women forfeit their right to life by their behavior, or is that right irrevocably given by God?

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Hard Questions About Just War

by Kenneth R. Himes October 30, 2006

Reevaluating just war theory for a new millennium.

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The Corporate University

by Wilson D. Miscamble July 31, 2006

The commercialization or “corporatization” of American higher education has dramatically changed the character and conduct of colleges and universities over the past quarter century. The literature on this subject is large and growing. A mere sampling of recent works includes: Universiti

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Peter Faber: A Jesuit Saint Too Little Known

by John W. Padberg July 17, 2006

Peter Faber may best have exemplified what a missionary to the church of the Reformation era needed.

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The genesis of ‘Nostra Aetate’

by Thomas Stransky October 24, 2005October 20, 2025

On this day in 1965, the Vatican II’s “Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions,” also known as “Nostra Aetate,” was promulgated by the council—despite surprises, shocks and setbacks along the way.

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The Man With a Ladder

by Thomas R. Kopfensteiner November 1, 2004

In his textbook of moral theology, Henry Davis, an English Jesuit theologian, wrote that of all the principles of moral theology, the principle of material cooperation is the most difficult to apply. The principle is used to analyze the contribution one makes or the assistance one gives to the wrong

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Jesuit Karl Rahner was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. But he was first and foremost a priest.

by Kevin O'Brien May 3, 2004

“Students who understood very little of his lectures told me that they attended because they ‘felt better’ about themselves in his presence. ‘This is a professor to whom I can confess,’ one said.”