The story of Shakespeare is eternally appealing, because we want to know what confluence of circumstances, or divine blessing, could produce such a towering figure.
Jesuits
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
How to build a better preacher
Father Thomas J. Scirghi recognizes how much preparation good preaching requires.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Want to keep your homilies fresh? Take a page from Louis C. K.
I’ve only been a priest for 13 years. How could I possibly be at the point that I am just recycling ideas?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The Francis effect on Jesuit mergers: Being more present and going to the margins
The consolidation is a work in progress. The brethren have mixed feelings about it, and their provincials know it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Women deacons, Disney and doors: Read what this Jesuit priest said in his first homily.
Parts of us are afraid and behind locked doors. Parts of our society are afraid and behind locked doors. Parts of our church are afraid and behind locked doors.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The little-known story behind Father Walter Ciszek’s ‘With God in Russia’
To this day I have no idea why the editor of ‘America’ asked me, the youngest and newest member of the staff, to write the story.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The extraordinary life of China’s Jesuit Mr. Rogers
George “Jerry” Martinson, S.J., was one of the most significant Jesuits to work in China since World War II and almost certainly the most well known.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
What Pope Francis learned from St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
An excerpt from Jesuit Sean Salai’s new book “All the Pope’s Saints: The Jesuits Who Shaped Pope Francis”
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.