How a Jesuit’s biology classes taught me how to think
He pushed his students forward without prodding and stayed in the background as we went ahead.
Teaching That Transforms: The distinctive heart of Jesuit higher education
What is different about Jesuit higher education?
A Catholic take on campus debates over free speech and safe space
A university that is only a place of witness will lose its credibility as a university.
Laudato Si’ University: A school of hope in an unexpected place
In this most isolated and unexpected of places, there is a university.
Of Many Things
What does the future of Jesuit education look like?
Since the times of Ignatius, the talk about what Jesuit education means—what makes it distinctive, what it demands, what results it strives for—has become more explicit.
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Editors: How can American Catholics work for peace in Israel?
How can American Catholics work for fair treatment of Arab citizens and peace in Israel?
Faith in Focus
How the Jesuits transformed my life
The answer to the world’s most pressing questions starts with compassion.
Taking your children to Mass isn’t always easy but it’s worth it.
Over the years, we choose, time and again, to brave the wrath of children awakened too early on a weekend morning, in order that we might continue to attend Mass as a family.
Ideas
#WeAreWakanda: Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on the Black Panther
Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on the Black Panther
Books
Nazism’s Nemesis: Reviewing von Hildebrand’s ‘My Battle Against Hitler’
‘My Battle Against Hitler,’ by Dietrich von Hildebrand
How different are Christians and Buddhists?
‘Jesus & Buddha,’ by Paul Knitter and Roger Haight
The Word
Gospel: Pentecost and Continuing Education
If you have a teacher you are a student and you have things to learn There are naturally students who believe they know it all or even if they do not are not compelled to learn anything else They are comfortable with what they know Some students too are simply bored and uninterested Wheth
Columns
Saying goodbye to legendary Dodgers’ broadcaster Vin Scully
Vin Scully, Southern California’s soundtrack to summertime, is retiring.
Current Comment
Want corporations to pay more in taxes? Maybe we should lower their tax rate
The current regulatory environment makes tax avoidance a primary component of global corporate strategy.
Lessons from Latin America on keeping kids safe on the Internet
“We cannot ignore the risks that these new forms of communication pose for children and adolescents,” Francis says.
Canada’s Liberal Orthodoxy
A new assisted-suicide bill is opposed by an impressive coalition of religious voices.
Faith
Gospel: Pentecost and Continuing Education
If you have a teacher you are a student and you have things to learn There are naturally students who believe they know it all or even if they do not are not compelled to learn anything else They are comfortable with what they know Some students too are simply bored and uninterested Wheth
Taking your children to Mass isn’t always easy but it’s worth it.
Over the years, we choose, time and again, to brave the wrath of children awakened too early on a weekend morning, in order that we might continue to attend Mass as a family.
First Monday
’Bathroom Wars’ are revealing a deep societal divide and the need for reasoned use of political power.
The equal protection clause requires laws to be, at minimum, rationally based.
Of Other Things
Why context is always key in the lives of Christians
This recognition of the importance of context can and should be extended to other areas in the life of the church.
Signs Of the Times
Jesuit Campaign Aims to Bring Education to the World’s Margins
Jesuit Refugee Service has a very specific answer to Pope Francis’ call to put mercy on the leading edge of a church reaching out to the peripheries. The answer is education.With a campaign called “Mercy in Motion,” J.R.S. is trying to raise $35 million this year so that by 2020 it
Closer to Canonization
A canonical inquiry into the life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, will begin soon and extend to the end of the year, according to the Archdiocese of New York, which is sponsoring her sainthood cause. The names of 256 people had been submitted as potential eyewitnesses to
Focus Turns to Religious Orders
In a continuing effort to protect children, much of the attention of the Catholic Church has been on how dioceses and national bishops’ conferences have been responding to victims and protecting children. Religious orders and congregations are sometimes left out of that picture, even though mo
News Briefs
Pope Francis surprised a group of teenagers on April 23 in St. Peter’s Square, telling them that happiness is not a downloadable app and then hearing the confessions of 16 teens as he joined 150 other priests offering the sacrament of reconciliation. • Bishop Ägidius Zsifkovics of Austri
Sisters’ Acts of Mercy
When ISIS extremists rolled across Iraq’s Nineveh Plain in 2014, tens of thousands of Christians fled to Kurdish-controlled areas of Iraq. They still wait in limbo in crowded camps. Their only certainty is that whatever happens to them, a group of Dominican nuns will be at their side. “W
A Celebration of Life
One day after Planned Parenthood’s president, Cecile Richards, spoke at Georgetown University, Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington celebrated a University Mass for Life for college students at a nearby Catholic church, encouraging them to stand up for God’s gift of human life. A Georg
Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis is calling on all of us to respond prophetically to the refugee crisis
Francis’ visit to a refugee camp was a message to Europe and the rest of us.
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