Jake Martin S J reviews two new working girl sitcoms and looks back at the surprisingly durable genre When Marlo Thomas mussed her hair for the first time during the opening credits of ldquo That Girl rdquo in 1966 the gesture marked a shift in how single women were perceived Since then

This week The Jesuit Post features excerpts from Fr Kevin O Brien s upcoming book The Ignatian Adventure published by Loyola Press Spiritual Exercises Ignatius gave the church the Spiritual Exercises as a testament to God rsquo s gentle persistent laboring in his life Over his lifetime Ig

From Ciudad Nueva courtesy of Mirada Global The announcement is a surprise but not such a big surprise The FARC will no longer get its funds through kidnapping civilians and it will liberate 10 policemen they rsquo ve been holding since 1998 and 1999 The announcement didn rsquo t come as such a

America Contributor Tom Deignan visits the original St Patrick s Cathedral in the latest of our New York pilgrimages Happy St Patrck s Day to all Tim Reidy

You don t have to be a fan of the Fox show Glee to enjoy NBC s new Broadway based drama Smash from NBC writes Fr Terrance Klein in this exclusive Web review Glee rdquo is produced by Fox These days all creativity seems to come from one of the non-traditional broadcast networks The t

A compelling photo essay from The Jesuit Post featuring the art of Fabian Debora nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Read about Fabian Debora and see more examples of his street art here Tim Reidy

Two perspectives from two committed Catholic women The first comes from Valerie Schultz an occasional contributer to America We Catholic women are often cast as less than by the policies of the religious hierarchy of our church We are forbidden ordination and yet we fill the pews teach the

From our friend at The Jesuit Post a thoughtful essay from a young Jesuit who works in public health A few years ago I was in Paris in a meeting room that might as well have been an art gallery ndash certainly no place for a boy from rural Missouri nbsp I was there because I rsquo d been ask

The Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary talks about the future of the Occupy movement in this Web exclusive What are the ethical roots of the Occupy movement The ethical roots of the Occupy movement are as various as the widely various individuals and groups

From the Jesuit journal Choisir via Mirada Global The way the Society acts is based in the experience of its founder During his conversion in Manresa Ignatius went through a pedagogical experience In his autobiographical narration he describes it in the third person ldquo At the time God t