How can the life of Walter Ciszek SJ help us to understand what it means to find God s will in our lives Often when we think about God s will we think of trying to figure it all out What is God s will What am I supposed to do One of the themes of this book has been the Ignatian model of di

In the category of a picture speaks a thousand words comes this rare photo of Fr Walter Ciszek SJ the nbsp U S Jesuit whose canonization nbsp process has been given the green light by the Vatican See nbsp post below nbsp The provenance nbsp Someone sent it to me last year but I ve com

Our own associate editor Kerry Weber is interviewed by Camille D Arienzo RSM as part of her NCR column conversations with Sister Camille nbsp Inspiring stuff nbsp Kerry s discussion of her image of God is particularly compelling nbsp nbsp What is your image of God When I was teaching in A

Thanks to Greg Kandra at Deacon s Bench for alerting us to this great bit of news from the Diocese of Allentown the Vatican has given its formal approval for the canonization process for Walter Ciszek SJ 1904-1984 to begin nbsp Father Ciszek an American-born Jesuit and the author of With Go

The U S Conference of Catholic Bishops in a newly released statement have promised to continue their fight against the Obama administration s HHS mandate calling it a violation of personal civil rights The story on the USCCB website begins nbsp The U S bishops are strongly united in their

Here is a fantastic new program called Jesuit Commons Higher Education at the Margins JCHEM nbsp With this new initiative Jesuit colleges and universities nbsp strive to bring Jesuit education to people who are severely underserved for example those living in refugee camps In this video Ma

Eagle-eyed readers will notice a tiny change in the magazine rsquo s masthead soon nbsp Starting next week I rsquo ll be listed not as ldquo Culture Editor rdquo but as ldquo Contributing Editor nbsp I rsquo m grateful to Drew Christiansen our editor-in-chief and to John Schlegel S J our

I found this nbsp interview with Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin on nbsp 60 Minutes last night nbsp to be deeply moving nbsp The archbishop of Dublin nbsp is resolute about confronting the sex abuse crisis in his country he has rightly apologized to victims he nbsp correctly states that t

You didn t think we were going to pass up an opportunity to review The Artist did you nbsp Especially after its performance at the Oscars nbsp Victor Stepien looks at this unusual film nbsp Silent movies came to an end in the 1920s As talkies took over a whole generation of celebrated ac

Be sure to catch both parts of M Cathleen Kaveny professor of theology and law at Notre Dame explaining Catholic morality the role of the bishops and the development of the lay theologian on The Daily Show last night Part II can be found here It was noteable for being a calm and lucid dis