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Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including AmericaCommonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).

Articles:

Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)

Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)

Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)

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The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Of late students and I have been working through the Sermon on the Mount Line by line we 39 ve been examining some of Jesus 39 most daunting words His commands on anger retaliation divorce love for enemies -- each of these teachings uproots modern assumptions and typical thought patterns
Xavier College Preparatory High School
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
High school students build a wall to spark discussion about immigration.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
The nbsp Washington Post nbsp recently addressed the high number of Catholic and Jesuit institutions competing successfully in NCAA Men 39 s basketball nbsp Sixty-eight teams make it into the NCAA Division I men rsquo s championship mdash affectionately known as March Madness mdash each year
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
The New York Times reports on the increasing number of schools offering computer programming Around the world students from elementary school to the Ph D level are increasingly getting acquainted with the basics of coding as computer programming is also known From Singapore to Tallinn governmen
A woman touches a statue of Jesus and Mary as she prays at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in the Corona neighborhood of the New York borough of Queens. (CNS photo/ Gregory A. Shemitz)
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
The worst thing imaginable, the loss of a child, was borne by the mother of God.
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
The Most Reverend David A Zubik Bishop of Pittsburgh has a nbsp written a column nbsp for the nbsp Pittsburgh Catholic nbsp explaining why the city 39 s diocesan schools will not be implementing the Common Core State Standards According to Bishop Zubik A number of parents have raised questions
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Saint Louis University where I spent a great four years and graduated with a degree in philosophy today announced its new president Fred P Pestello Ph D Pestello currently president of Le Moyne College in Syracuse NY succeeds Fr Lawrence Biondi S J and is the first permanent lay preside
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Over at quot The Stone quot a blog of the New York Times that the paper describes as a quot forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless quot Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has a fascinating post on the human quest to escape obscurity In her essay q
 Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Society of Jesus
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
In the course of keeping myself fresh on Ignatian and Jesuit education I 39 ve been reading some of the talks of the Jesuit Superior General Fr Adolfo Nicol s S J I realized that despite all that I 39 ve read on Catholic and Jesuit education I 39 ve not spent much time discovering what he
The Ignatian Educator
Matt Emerson
Syracuse com in conjunction with Syracuse 39 s nbsp The Post-Standard has published an interview with Fr George Coyne S J former director of the Vatican Observatory and one of the more well known of those scholars and priests trying to show the relationship or where appropriate the lack th