A reminder to America s readers that we are conducting as part of our upcoming centennial celebration an essay contest on the topic of The Case for God Secular and religious media alike have been abuzz over the past year about the sudden flurry of books by aggressive and polemically-minde

More sartorial commentary Keith Pecklers S J has a provocative article in the latest London Tablet on Pope Benedict s return to some of the more formal vesture of the church Father Pecklers is Professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Professor of Liturgical History a

Okay okay I know that this is somewhat inside-baseball but I also know that there are several readers who are interested in things Jesuit and also not a few Jesuits who read this blog and even more who read the mag In any event as the General Congregation winds down here is something t

Word has come from an anonymous but reliable source that on Tuesday of this Holy Week the corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets in Louisville familiar to any fan of Thomas Merton will be named Merton Square It was there that Merton in 1958 stopping in town for a visit to his physician s

Do you read The Anchoress That s the nom de blog of one of the more literate and more lively Catholic writers scribbling in the blogosphere Sure she may not be what some of our St Louis Jesuit-loving F J-friendly Catholic Worker Jesuit-educated readers might be used to from our ma

One of the first ethical lessons we learn as children is to play by the rules All of us can remember a playground bully wagging his finger when the game was slipping from his grasp trying to bend the rules so that he could win That was all that mattered him winning The solipsism of the play