Czech President Vaclav Havel is being remembered as a revolutionary and an artist an accidental political leader during a period of rapid change He is also being remembered by some as a spiritual seeker who understood that man and a healthy social order do not live by the bread of democracy alone

Fans of Michael Morpurgo s popular book War Horse and the successful Broadway adaptation of the same name have been wondering how nbsp or whether director Steven Spielberg would translate the unique prose of the book it s narrated by a horse and the vision of the play the horses are nbsp play

From Catholic News Service news of papal approval of upcoming canonizations and beatifications including two from the United States a Jesuit and a Jesuit colleague VATICAN CITY CNS -- Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood causes of Blessed Marianne Cope of Molokai and Blessed Kateri Tekakwi

ldquo Global Christianity A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World rsquo s Christian Population rdquo has just been published by the Pew Research Center rsquo s Forum on Religion amp Public Life The report locates Christian populations around the world and compares them with other re

As the media have reported the last few weeks there has been tension between many in Occupy Wall Street as well a good number of religious leaders in Occupy Faith NYC on the one hand and Trinity Wall Street on the other Trinity is a venerable Episcopal church at the end of Wall Street in lower

I finagled an invitation from Governor Jerry Brown we had known one another in high school and for the brief time he was a Jesuit seminarian to attend his by invitation only conference on extreme climate risks and California s future held Dec 15th at the Academy of Science San Francisco The