Father James Martin on the worst mistake he made working as a young Jesuit among the East African refugees who settled in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya.

From Mirada Global an appreciation of two geniuses of poetry and art Nicol aacute s Guill eacute n and Osvaldo Guayasam iacute n Nicol aacute s Guill eacute n was born in Camaguey Cuba in 1902 while Osvaldo Guayasam iacute n was born in Quito Ecuador in 1919 It isn rsquo t trivial to get

After my post yesterday which mentioned among other things my regret that while in Madrid on 24-25 March I couldn t follow the Courtyard of the Gentiles event at Notre Dame in Paris a friend who lives in the French capital and went to one of the sessions has written me a damning description of th

There will be two major differences between the global interfaith prayer for peace which Pope Benedict has called for in Assisi on 27 October and the two previous ones called by Pope John Paul II in 1986 and 2002 nbsp The first is that the representatives of the different faiths will not actuall

Orbis Books has just brought out a new edition of nbsp This Our Exile A Spiritual Journey with the Refugees of East Africa with a new afterword nbsp They have nbsp given permission to reprint the first chapter of the book as a way of introducing readers to the story of my two years of working w

If you ve been wondering how badly the sex abuse crisis has hurt the bishops ability to speak on any moral ethical challenges in modern civic life listen to the rhetorical bombs being dropped in New Hampshire I know a state that doesn t exactly spring to the fore when contemplating overheated pol