Remember The Mission that great 1986 film about eighteenth-century Jesuits in the Paraguayan jungle starring Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons Its British director Roland Joffe is making a new Catholic drama - about the early life of Opus Dei and its founder St Josemar iacute a Escriv aacute de

Rowan Williams on the faith of Dostoevsky

Rowan Williams considers Dostoevsky's Christianity

It was an apology of sorts -- but not of the sort to make amends The Holocaust-denying schismatic British bishop whose rehabilitation by the Vatican sparked an international row apologised last night for remarks in which he denied the scale of the Nazis genocidal campaign against the Jews The a

Adolfo Nicolas the superior general of the Society of Jesus recently visited the Jesuits California Province on the occasion of its 100th anniversary nbsp He spoke to a wide variety of groups--9 days 11 cities and 30 different sites--and had an extensive press conference for representative

At least he rsquo s not saying that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene that Opus Dei murders people and that the Va tican has misled believers about Christ for 2 000 years nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Here rsquo s a trailer and behind-the-scenes look at the new Ron How

The Vatican s Secretariat of State nbsp has issued an official nbsp statement on the Society of St Pius X this morning here nbsp nbsp nbsp It has nbsp a clear message The acceptance of Vatican II and the authority of the last five popes is an indispensable condition for full communion for t

Robert Mickens the Rome correspondent for the London Tablet has a lengthy article on the SSPX saga in this week s Tablet here nbsp He also sent us this much more nbsp personal reflection which he has allowed us to post here Pope Benedict XVI said at his general audience on Wednesday that the

In between all the sad news about the death of Cardinal Dulles you may have missed some wonderful news about one of his Jesuit brothers nbsp John nbsp Foley SJ the founder of the Cristo Rey network of schools providing education nbsp funded in part by nbsp work-study jobs for poor youths ac

Every age rdquo Ilia Delio O S F writes ldquo must discover Christ anew rdquo In her latest book Christ in Evolution she suggests how we might proceed on the road that leads to just that discovery in our own time Scientific theories especially the theory of evolution often pose difficul