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John A. Coleman S.J., is an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. For many years he was the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His books and other writing have focused largely on areas connected to sociology of religion and also to social ethics. His most recent work has concentrated on issues of globalization.

In All Things
John A. Coleman
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
In All Things
John A. Coleman
nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp To the best of my knowledge Catholic Social Teaching does not as such have much to say about economic inequalities per se in a society Indirectly it castigates them if they entail the loss of fundamental human rights Catholic Social Teaching endorses not only
In All Things
John A. Coleman
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
In All Things
John A. Coleman
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
In All Things
John A. Coleman
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
FaithIn All Things
John A. Coleman
Today, often enough, even with two-family earners, many parents barely earn sufficient money to support their families.
In All Things
John A. Coleman
nbsp nbsp Some twenty-five years ago I wrote an essay entitled After Sainthood which appeared in the book Saints and Virtues edited by John Hawley and Mark Juegensmeyer University of California Press 1987 I contrasted what I termed nbsp archetypical saints the typical exemplars of
In All Things
John A. Coleman
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
In All Things
John A. Coleman
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
Books
John A. Coleman
A new study examines the religiosity of America's adolescents.