Some interesting news from my alma mater Yale Divinity School From the press release A scholarship in honor of the late Henri Nouwen who taught at Yale Divinity School for a decade beginning in 1971 has been established through a gift of 300 000 from a University benefactor who wishes to remai

In loving memory of the feast of St Ignatius on July 31 may I suggest a visit to the good Jesuits buried at the former St Andrew s Seminary now the Culinary Institute of America The institute is on Route 9 in Hyde Park New York Among those buried there is the paleontologist Teilhard de Chardi

A fine new movie Lebanon the winner of the 2009 Venice Film Festival has just been released in the States nbsp John McCarthy in a review on our online Culture section calls it bracing operatic and vivid nbsp His review begins Wolfgang Petersen rsquo s 1981 submarine thriller Das

Cambridge MA I must be candid I am not a stellar example of being a good neighbor While I try reasonably successfully to be a good neighbor at Harvard mdash attentive to my colleagues and students intuiting who I might help listening finding friends mdash nbsp I am not much of a neighbor o

Today s Feast reminded me of an entertaining story about St Ignatius it has been told and retold to the extent that its original author can perhaps no longer be known but I heard it first when I was a Jesuit novice from the great Fr Vinny O Keefe S J nbsp It goes something like this In the e

An excerpt from ‘The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything,’ by Father James Martin