Editors’ note: America is proud to stand with the Society of Jesus in the United States in defense of unborn life. The statement is an update and revision of an earlier 2003 statement of the Jesuits, “Standing for the Unborn,” which we published then and have frequently returned to, especially on the occasion of the March […]
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Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The citizens of Honduras must fight for democracy, and we must stand with them
When a government tries to thwart the will of the people, it is a citizen’s duty to stand up and peacefully protest.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
What’s it like during the first year of priesthood?
This week’s guest is Rev. Brendan Busse, S.J. Fr. Busse is associate pastor of Dolores Mission in Los Angeles and a contributing writer for America. We spoke to him about his most recent article, “The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful, experience of being a newly ordained priest.” Fr. Busse, who wanted to be an architect […]
Posted inFaith, Vantage Point
Living into Mystery: Karl Rahner’s Reflections on his 75th Birthday
“The center of my theology? Good Lord, that can’t be anything else but God as mystery and Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen One, as the historical event in which this God turns irreversibly toward us in self-communication.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Jesuits issue open letter denouncing ‘grave threats’ against Honduran priest
The Jesuits hold Honduran president “Juan Orlando Hernández and his allies responsible for the safety and physical and moral well-being” of Padre Melo and eight other regional leaders.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
The case for taking up the Ignatian examen in the New Year
Along with the special communication of Scripture, God reaches us through the experience of a given day.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Review: Jon Snow leads a Catholic revolt in ‘Gunpowder’
The series tells the story of the Gunpowder Plot, when a group of Catholics plotted to blow up Parliament.
Posted inFaith, Features
The urgent, lonely, relevant, humbling, joyful, experience of being a newly ordained priest
I never wanted to be a priest. But here I am. Newly minted Father Brendan, and still wondering how I got here.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
How Jesuits and Jedi are more alike than you might think
Here are the ways Jesuits are a lot like Jedi—and a few ways that they are definitely not.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
When your favorite Jesuit moonlights as a model
Have you ever gotten to know a priest only to discover that your conception of who he was was misguided?