I recently spent ten days in Belgium and the Netherlands visiting Amsterdam Antwerp Louvain Leuven and Bruges My purpose for being there was an academic conference in Louvain Each of the cities I visited have lovely Beguine centers and or medieval Beguine churches which I purposefully sought

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Through what is a kind of fluke really I am regularly offered two free tickets designated for the press to plays at the Marin Theater Company in Mill Valley in Marin County I had written a review for America of the Jesuit playwright Bill Cain s play Equivocation My review somehow came to t

Tomorrow around the world in 168 countries and around the United States myriad events will celebrate a mobilization for addressing global warming around the slogan of a moving planet Sponsored by 350 org the mobilization and its events call for marches bicycle tours green fairs clean ups tr

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp One of the highlights of my past summer was attending a block-buster exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Steins Collect One is simply amazed at the vast array of Cesanne s Renoir s Gauguin s Matisse s and Picasso s in the exhibition The Stein

Today, often enough, even with two-family earners, many parents barely earn sufficient money to support their families.

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I finished this past week leading sixteen Jesuit tertians--from around the world and this country-- men making what Ignatius mandated as a kind of intense nbsp school of the heart before taking eventually their final vows in the Society in a week-long sapiential or prayerful reading of T

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Any document after all is only just a document Words are less powerful than actual deeds or conduct Still some documents represent important catalysts for possible action On June 28 in Bangkok The World Council of Churches The Pontifical Council for Interreligious D

A new study examines the religiosity of America's adolescents.