It took me three weeks to properly learn the Windsor knot four weeks to master how to keep my top button undone without getting a detention and about a month and a few misread train schedules to figure out my commute But it only took a few days to embrace a Jesuit education Seven years and two
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The Jesuit Post Editorializes on DOMA
The editors of The Jesuit Post on the Supreme Court decision This week as the Supreme Court decisions about DOMA and California rsquo s Proposition 8 were handed down we watched two very different reactions develop in face-to-face conversations official statements and especially over social med
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Beyond the Fortnight: Emerging challenges to religious freedom in the United States
The promotion and defense of religious freedom has fast become a top priority of the Catholic Church in the United States. Threats to this fundamental right are widespread, grave and growing, both at home and abroad. The Catholic bishops of the United States are duly alarmed by this trend, and we ha
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The Skulls Of Bisesero: How to commemorate the Rwandan genocide
How to commemorate the Rwandan genocide
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100 Days of Francis: Observations and predictions
Pope Francis is approaching 100 days as our Holy Father. The beginning of his papal service has drawn massive attention and offered new ways of carrying out the leadership of the Universal Church. There is amazing interest in this unpredictable story. Washington was both fascinated and appalled by a
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Dispatches from the ITMS 2013: Part Two
The thirteenth general meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society ITMS concluded Sunday morning with the celebration of the Eucharist at which John Eudes Bamberger OCSO presided and preached Preaching on the readings for the day Bamberger encouraged the congregation of ITMS participant
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Dispatches from the ITMS 2013: Part One
Last week I wrote about what gives theologians hope Today I share about a theologian who gaves me hope this morning Christopher Pramuk a theologian at Xavier University delivered the opening plenary address on the second day of the International Thomas Merton Society ITMS conference The gathe
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The City of God?: Political economy and the community of love
The English author and journalist Will Self provides a dramatic image of the City of London's changing skyline. He likens it to a slow-motion firework display as new glass and steel skyscrapers rise and fall, sparkling for a few decades but—by implication at least—destined for ashes.
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What Gives Theologians Hope
This week happens to be the annual if unofficial ldquo theology week rdquo It began last weekend with the annual meeting of the College Theology Society CTS held this year at Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska and will conclude this weekend with the annual gathering of the Catholic Theo
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Greeley in ‘America’: A collection of essays
Selected essays spanning 50 years from the priest and author