An archive of articles by the Jesuit theologian John Courtney Murray

Three theologians respond to the recent censure of Sister Margaret Farley for her 2006 book 'Just Love.'

Blessed Peter Favre, St. Ignatius Loyola and St. Francis Xavier enjoyed a very close friendship, which began at the University of Paris, where the three were roommates. Fr. James Martin, SJ., offers a mediation on the friendship between the three men.

Here was an average man without much prior interest in religious observance, assuming that he could emulate two of the greatest saints in the Christian tradition.

I have been asked first to sit in meditation with a Buddhist group in San Francisco at the end of this month and then give them a talk on Thomas Merton and the dialogue with Buddhism Merton who early on in his career showed a keen interest in dialogue with the religions of Asia Hinduism Sufis