The challenge of regularly visiting a group of shut-ins, or those confined to bed, is that each expects you to arrive at the same time each week, and yet each also pleads that you stay a little longer than you did the week before.

Where would contemporary theology be except for the works of the Jesuits Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) of France, Karl Rahner (1904-84) of Germany, Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) of Canada and John Courtney Murray (1904-67) of the United States?The Swiss-born Hans

nbsp Society of Jesus Statement on the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade 22 January 2013On this 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade the Society of Jesus in the United States the Jesuits the largest religious community of priests and brothers in the Roman Catholic Church vigorously affirms our opposi

nbsp We seldom remember when or where we learned life rsquo s truly useful lessons Plato suggested that this is because deep down the soul has always known these truths though that teaching of Plato didn rsquo t seem familiar to me the first time I heard it Perhaps we simply remember the be

Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Narendra Nath Datta, better known as Swami Vivekananda (January 12, 1863-July 4, 1902). The Swami was one of the original disciples of the Hindu saint and mystic Ramakrishna (1836-1886).