Cambridge Ma Readers of this blog will have noticed over the years that I have no inside connections in Rome or in the Vatican Most of what I know about such things I get by reading periodicals such as America blogs at this site and from the Jesuit grape vine I rsquo ve only been to Rome twice

Have you ever wondered where the wheat wafers used for communion are made before they find their way to the altar Chances are those bits of bread were made in a factory in Rhode Island Killing the Buddha explores the subject nbsp The wafers I bought were manufactured by the Cavanagh Company of

I saw Alexsei nbsp Fedorchenko s extraordinarily lovely if melancholic Russian-language film Silent Souls on the same day i attended a funeral for a fifty-five year old Down syndrome friend nbsp the brother of a good friend Eulogies at funerals rarely touch me much but the four given for Jimmy

George Clooney is getting a good deal of Oscar buzz around his performance in Alexander Payne s new film The Descendants which despite its larky commercials turns out to be about some serious subjects nbsp Payne is as many Jesuits know a graduate of Creighton Prep in Omaha nbsp So does hi

I am getting ready to teach in the spring semester at Fordham and one of my courses is a graduate class called Theology of Ministry Every year I feel the impossibility of saying something with solidity about a topic that is deeply elusive So many ministries are worthy of study in their explicit a

nbsp I am getting ready to teach in the spring semester at Fordham and one of my courses is a graduate class called Theology of Ministry Every year I feel the impossibility of saying something with solidity about a topic that is deeply elusive So many ministries are worthy of study in their exp