As the passages from Isaiah 11 1-10 and Matthew 3 1-12 illustrate we await the coming of the peaceable Kingdom the fulfillment of the promises of God the establishment of the Kingdom that shall not end And we await it in the context of history otherwise known as our ordinary lives Christianity

Just in time for his feast day Xavier Missionary and Saint an hourlong documentary written directed and produced by Jesuit scholastics Jeff Johnson S J and Jeremy Zipple S J will show around the country on PBS starting this week and continuing throughout December You can check the Web

Francis Xavier, meet Ignatius Loyola: re-imagining a famous encounter

No News... When Pope Benedict allowed wider use of the Latin Mass last July, he explained that he did not expect as a result any extensive return to the Tridentine rite. Rather, he said, he intended to heal rifts with traditionalist groups and allow young people attracted to the rite to experience i

Vatican Diplomat Questions Relations With Israel With new problems over visas for foreign priests and the long, ongoing negotiations needed to resolve the tax status of Catholic institutions in Israel, the Vaticans former ambassador to that country said, To be frank, relations between the Catholic

A report from an ecumenical congress in Europe

The aspirations Isaiah voices are ours: for freedom, justice, liberation, and peace.

On presiding at a Latin liturgy

The full text of Pope Benedict XVI s new encyclical on hope Spe Salvi has just been released by the Vatican The link is below Like Benedict s first encyclical Deus Caritas Est it is primarily in the form of a meditation See what you think Spe Salvi

On Sept. 13, 1983, Peter-Hans Kolvenbach was elected 29th superior general. He retired in 2008.