On a night when the Packers took on the Bears last Thursday evening I found myself in Milwaukee speaking to a crowd of 450 friends of the Wisconsin Jesuits about the state of electoral politics in the U S The invitation came from the Jesuit Partnership Council a lay group that garners suppo

For great swaths of the church today, dialogue is an undeniable sign of the times.

The Responsibility to Protect the innovative international law doctrine that establishes a framework for international intervention in the domestic life of countries where significant numbers of people are subject to violence or grave deprivation seems tailor-made for the current civil war in Syri

What is the spiritual meaning of America?

The role of spiritual conversation in pastoral care

Our editor Drew Christiansen S J submitted this letter to the editor to the New York Times in response to Ross Douthat s recent column Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved Ross Douthat attributes the loss of adherence in western churches to progressive theology In particular he assigns the

When historians write the history of the development of our political ideas and institutions this past quarter century they would be amply justified to label it ldquo an unexpected revolution rdquo For beginning in the early 1990s there has been a proliferation of new practices and institutions

I woke up Sunday morning July 1 to the voice of National Public Radio rsquo s Krista Tippet posing gentle questions to philosopher Jacob Needleman on his book American Soul Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders The segment entitled ldquo The Inward Work of Democracy rdquo explained how ever

Former editor in chief Drew Christiansen, S.J., on the lost season of Pentecost

Uri Mor worked tirelessly on behalf of Christians, often at cost to himself.