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The hermitage at Gethsemani: 'In the silence, everything begins to connect'
FaithDispatches
Judith Valente
How Merton kept the scales of his two vocations, writer and monk, in balance.
The martyr Benedict Daswa - courtesy of the Diocese of Tzaneen
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Benedict Daswa, a layman, was killed for his opposition to the use of traditional medicines.
Dispatches
Jim McDermott
A few hours before the Super Bowl I happened upon some tweets from the Ignatian Solidarity Network opining over the kinds of advertisements they wish we rsquo d see during the game ndash ads about how climate change is real or the need for comprehensive immigration reform They even did some moc
Eugene de Kock - picture from CityPress
Dispatches
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
Notorious apartheid-era death squad commander given parole after 20 years behind bars.
Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., center, wears his new pallium as he leaves in procession at the conclusion of a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis to mark the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican June 29.
Dispatches
Gerard O’Connell
Pope Francis has decided that the public ceremony of investiture of the Pallium on Metropolitan Archbishops will henceforth take place in the prelates rsquo home dioceses and not in the Vatican as has been the case under recent pontiffs He believes that in this way the ceremony quot will greatly f
A man bows his head as St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson leads a prayer vigil for peace at January-Wabash Park in Ferguson, Mo., last November.
Dispatches
Judith Valente
Local pastor sees "a very diverse community working together, acting together."