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In All Things
December 10, 2007
I m not sure what s worse about this story Nun Reads List of Curse Words to Kids That it was listed on MSN com s home page as one of the top stories of the day That so far 86 news organizations have picked it up Or that it caters to the same hoary anti-Catholic stereotypes about women re
In All Things
December 05, 2007
The New Republic has just put out one of their best issues in years It s hard to know which article to recommend first Included in an issue that focuses on the death or dearth of book reviewing on the face of it a topic that would make only authors upset though the mag prove otherwise ar
In All Things
November 30, 2007
The full text of Pope Benedict XVI s new encyclical on hope Spe Salvi has just been released by the Vatican The link is below Like Benedict s first encyclical Deus Caritas Est it is primarily in the form of a meditation See what you think Spe Salvi
In All Things
November 27, 2007
Has anyone slogged through Philip Pullman s The Golden Compass part of his bestselling trilogy known as His Dark Materials An excellent article in The Atlantic called How Hollywood Saved God shows how the book s frankly anti-Catholic plotline was successfully watered down for a new ho
In All Things
November 16, 2007
Happily the media did a decent job in its coverage of the revelations about Mother Teresa s dark night contained in the bestselling book Mother Teresa Come Be My Light More representative of the overall coverage were thoughtful articles like David Van Biema s piece in Time which was somet
Of Many Things
November 05, 2007
Praying with the Quakers in Plymouth Meeting, Pa.
Arts & Culture Faith in Focus
October 29, 2007
“I wasn’t raised religious and I don’t know anything about religion,” he said in 2004.
October 22, 2007
A review of 'Into the Wild'
Faith
September 24, 2007
The long dark night of Mother Teresa
August 27, 2007

For the past nine years, James Martin, S.J. has run a popular book club for adult Catholics at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, in New York City. As a way of helping readers who might want to begin a similar club in their own parishes, we offer a brief description of a plan that Father Martin