Teilhard’s Six Propositions were locked away until 2007 when they were discovered in the Jesuit archives in Rome.
Jesuits
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Masked men attack Jesuit University in Nicaragua
Since protests directed at the Sandinista government in Nicaragua began in April, the Jesuit-run University of Central America has been a target of violence.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The case for sending Jesuits to public universities
The Catholic student center at Boise State is not all things to all students. Rather, we are one thing to all students.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
70 years of friendship: John O’Malley on Jesuit spiritual master Howard Gray
If the church is a field hospital, I have known a place within the church where the wounded have flocked for many decades. I am speaking, of course, of Howard Gray.
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
Why Paul Ryan’s ‘economic approach’ to politics clashes with Catholic teaching
The conflict between Mr. Ryan’s libertarianism and his Catholicism rests on rival anthropologies.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
In dramatic shift, Speaker Ryan to keep Jesuit House chaplain in place
Patrick Conroy, S.J., the chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives has sent a letter to Mr. Ryan withdrawing his resignation
Posted inFaith, News
GOP lawmaker: Ryan’s decision to fire House chaplain appears ‘underhanded’
Representative Walter B. Jones of North Carolina said the decision “was made behind closed doors based upon the input of only a few.”
Posted inFaith, News
Do reactions to the firing of Jesuit House chaplain show anti-Catholic bias?
Representative Mark Walker of North Carolina said he wanted Father Conroy’s successor to be somebody with children.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
El Salvador court reopens investigation of 1989 Jesuit massacre
A human rights attorney in the United States believes that the upcoming canonization of Blessed Oscar Romero in October has been a factor in a decision to revisit the 1989 Jesuit massacre at the University of Central America.
Posted inArts & Culture, Podcasts
The (Catholic) Science Guy
Whoever says you have to choose between science and faith has not met Guy Consolmagno, S.J.—a Jesuit brother and director of the Vatican Observatory. We ask what projects the pope’s astronomers are working on now, if he believes in aliens and why people in every time and place look to the stars with big questions. […]