A good story from Vatican Radio about the impact of a Jesuit education initative Since its inception in 2010 Jesuit Commons Higher Education at the Margins JC HEM has been building distant learning higher education programs for more than 2 000 refugees and poor in Kenya Malawi Chad Syria Afg

Good news from my alma mater Saint Louis University Stltoday com reports Since before the Civil War when the Sisters of St Joseph opened a school to teach freed and slave girls the Catholic Church in St Louis has made education of the poor and African-Americans a priority of its mission nbsp

Much has been written about concussions and football about the long-term trauma caused by repeated head-to-head collisions The concern has transcended football and raises major questions about the place of the game in American culture Recent news from San Francisco may one day be seen as a turnin

I 39 m a little late to this but on Feb 19 2015 Fr Michael E Engh S J President of Santa Clara University delivered his State of the University address It 39 s a good window into some of the priorities and big ideas of a major Jesuit institution Thanks to Santa Clara for publishing it

Of late I 39 ve been reading Antony Flew 39 s There is a God How the World 39 s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind and in one of the appendices of the book he gives space to Roy Abraham Varghese to quot supplement quot his Flew 39 s reflections and respond to some of the arguments of

What's wrong with 'hyper-inclusive' calendars?