Of Many Things

“Faith is the heart of the pilgrim, every pilgrim, the pilgrim’s modus operandi. Faith is our yes to what we know; but even more, it is our yes to what we don’t know—to all that is to come,” writes Matt Malone, S.J., in a homily he delivered in Ireland.

Books about books were of special interest to George W. Hunt, S.J., and so, in his honor, we reprint this Of Many Things column from Feb. 20, 1993.

What exactly are we celebrating on Columbus Day?

For only the fourth time in the history of the Republic, the American people face the real possibility that the president of the United States will be impeached and removed from office.

All violence flows in some way from a failure to understand that our infinite desire for love can be satisfied only by the one who alone is the infinite source of that desire, Matt Malone, S.J. writes.

The fact that the national legislatures of both the United States and the United Kingdom are unable to govern properly cannot be a mere coincidence.