The word vocation, originally used to indicate lives directly consecrated to God through priestly or religious service, has recently come into use in a much broader fashion. To expand vocation to include the whole range of ways that lives can be given to God is a fair and sensible extension. After a
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Our Bleeding Hearts: Seeking more mercy from the media
During my year in the United Kingdom I kept up obsessively with news of home. It is not a habit that is encouraged among students abroad, but I expected with the sort of headlines I followed I would not be missing much. How is it possible, I then reasoned, to read about controversial or troubling ev
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The unlikely story of how the Jesuits were suppressed (and then restored)
Without Pius VII, it is fair to say, there would be no Society of Jesus today, no Jesuit schools, colleges or universities, no Jesuit retreat houses and no Jesuit periodicals.
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Watergate, S.J.: Three Jesuits and the downfall of a president
By the spring of 1973, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., had become a sensation but not yet an obsession.
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We are one body: Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement
Catholics raise voices against the use of solitary confinement.
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A President for Peace: The deadly consequences of J.F.K.’s attempts at reconciliation
The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.
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When priests hear about sex abuse in confession, should they be forced to report it?
Addressing new legal challenges to the seal of confession.
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A Jesuit Martyr to the Nazis: Hitler wanted Alfred Delp forgotten, but his way of resistance still inspires.
The faithful witness of Alfred Delp, S.J.
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The New, Lay Face of Missionaries
For many Catholics, the word missionary brings to mind a centuries-old image of a priest planting a cross in a foreign land and teaching, baptizing and celebrating Mass for its people. Or it may conjure up the slightly more modern image of women religious running a school in Africa or Latin America.
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Good News From Judas? Behind the newly popular gnostic text “The Gospel of Judas”
A New Testament Scholar demystifies the newly popular Gnostic text.