As we learn more and more about this history, we learn it’s not just a Jesuit story. While our focus is on the history and legacy of Jesuit slaveholding, what has become clear is the centrality of slaveholding in the history of the Catholic Church
Interviews
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How prayer changes politics: A conversation with Kathryn Jean Lopez
Kathryn Jean Lopez on her career, her new book and her ongoing drift from conservative politics to Catholic spirituality.
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A practical guide to discernment (Hint: just be yourself)
Father George Elliot discusses his latest book on vocational discernment and the power of prayer in determining God’s will.
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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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Father Quentin Dupont responds to AP story on assisted suicide of Catholic man in Seattle
‘I was absolutely, unequivocally unaware of Mr. Fuller’s intention’ to kill himself.
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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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She prayed to Fulton Sheen and her baby was saved. Meet Bonnie Engstrom.
The Engstrom family asked for the intercession of Archbishop Fulton Sheen for their son’s life and for the complete healing of any damage to James’s body, and the answer to their prayers was recently approved as a miracle by Pope Francis.
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One teen’s quest to capture the stories of men who went to the moon
I wanted to know what it was really like to travel to the moon, but I realized that the only people who knew would not be around much longer.
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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.