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.

Every Jesuit saint was a member of the Society of Jesus, lived vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in community; and were formed by the Spiritual Exercises. But even with those important commonalities, no one was alike.

Thanks to former Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent for sending this remembrance of George W. Hunt, S.J.

The Rev George W Hunt, S.J., editor in chief of America magazine from 1984-1998, died this morning at the Fordham University Jesuit community in New York.

Oct. 31 is the feast of a remarkable Catholic brother, St. Alphonsus Rodríguez, the humble Jesuit porter of Majorca.

St. Jean de Brébeuf’s life, like the lives of all the North American Martyrs, has much to teach us about working and living among those who are different from us.