An excerpt from Jesuit Sean Salai’s new book “All the Pope’s Saints: The Jesuits Who Shaped Pope Francis”
Jesuits
Posted inPolitics & Society, Video
Georgetown liturgy does penance for sale of 272 enslaved people
“The Society of Jesus prays with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
St. Ignatius, the Jesuits and the pope: a close and complex history
The relationship between the Jesuits and the popes has had far-reaching consequences for the church over the centuries.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Finding the Catholic Voices in Social Justice Poetry
Who are the literary heirs to Father Dan Berrigan?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Former Boston College President J. Donald Monan dies at 92
Father Monan led the Jesuit university for 24 years.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
The Jesuit Guide to March Madness. Ep: 4
Is your bracket busted? Did you pick an upset, just the wrong one? Take a break from the madness of March and listen in as we talk with Paddy Gilger, S.J., about the top Jesuit moments in the NCAA tournament’s history, the good things sports can do for us and when they become a religion of their […]
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What would Thomas Merton and Daniel Berrigan say about the Benedict Option?
A monk’s vocation is toward God, not a strategic retreat from something else.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How can the church help the victims of climate displacement?
Climate change is already affecting vulnerable populations across the world, in places that are the least able to adapt.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Welcome to jesuitical
A new podcast from the young, lay editors of America Media.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
New Democratic Party leader Tom Perez has deep Jesuit connections
“My folks taught us that if someone is hungry, you feed them. That if someone is thirsty, you give them drink. If someone is a stranger you welcome them into your home.”