Creator God, we ask you to calm the wind and the waves of the approaching hurricane, and spare those in its path from harm.

Last night I was privileged to have been invited to the 67th annual Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria only a few blocks away from our office Needless to say at 2 500 a seat I was someone s guest nbsp Most people may know the dinner nbsp as the occasion for the nbsp two p

My friends from Christ in the Desert Monastery in Abiquiu NM visited The Today Show nbsp this morning nbsp to promote their new album aptly called Monks in the Desert nbsp Funny enough I have a simpler version of their lovely chants which I listen to quite frequently nbsp The prior had

Yesterday the Jesuits worldwide received a beautiful letter from Adolfo Nicol aacute s S J the superior general of the Society of Jesus on Blessed Jacques Berthieu S J the Belgian missionary and martyr who will be canonized along with Kateri Tekakwitha and Marianne Cope this Sunday by Pope

Friday October 19 is a big day for Catholics especially for Jesuits and their colleagues It is the Feast of the North American Martyrs which commemorates such spiritual giants as St Isaac Jogues St Jean de Br eacute beuf and their brother Jesuits all of whom worked with the Native peoples in

Last night rsquo s spirited Vice-Presidential debate was billed in some quarters as a ldquo Catholic smackdown rdquo The debate moderator Martha Raddatz made specific note of that reality when she called the debate ldquo historic rdquo nbsp as it was the first time that both candidates fo

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council nbsp Here is Pope John XXIII s momentous Opening Speech nbsp Opening Address Today Venerable Brethren is a day of joy for Mother Church through God s most kindly providence the longed-for day has dawned for the sole

Here s a quiz nbsp Who said this nbsp Disturbing factors are frequently present in the form of the frightful disparities nbsp between excessively rich individuals and groups on the one hand and on the other hand nbsp the majority nbsp made up of the poor or indeed of nbsp the destitute who la

Today is the final day of the editorship of Drew Christiansen SJ And nbsp we would be very remiss if nbsp we did not offer a word--several words--of gratitude for Drew rsquo s generous leadership of our magazine in the last seven years Drew Christiansen took over as editor in chief nbsp after the

At nbsp an academic conference in Rome on Tuesday Karen L King a church historian at Harvard Divinity School presented a finding that according to some reports threatened to overturn what we know about Jesus as well as the tradition of priestly celibacy She identified a small fragment of fou