If you were in the Bronx last night that rumbling sound you heard was not an earthquake or even an especially loud subway car rolling past it was the sound of 3 000 Fordham students faculty Jesuits and guests cheering for Timothy Cardinal Dolan the archbishop of New York and Stephen Colbert

To mark this week s nbsp release of the nbsp paperback edition of Between Heaven and Mirth I was asked by nbsp HarperOneVideo nbsp to film nbsp Forty Days of Funny a series of 40 jokes over the space of 40 days to remind nbsp readers and viewers nbsp that laughter is a gift from God humor is

The Cristo Rey model of schools begun in the Pilsen area of Chicago by John Foley SJ is one of the great ideas of the Jesuits in this country in the last 25 years nbsp Essentially high-school students from poorer backgrounds work to help defray the cost of their tuition and at the same time g

I rsquo m nbsp happy that my friend Thomas J Fitzpatrick S J who told me this nbsp wonderful story a few years ago about the late Cardinal Carlo Martini S J has allowed me to share it with you nbsp It rsquo s edited only slightly from what he sent me today nbsp It s funny provocative and

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini SJ A great Jesuit nbsp a renowned Biblical scholar a former archbishop of Milan a widely read spiritual master a popular retreat master and a one-time possible pope has died at age 85 nbsp nbsp Cardinal Martini had been battling Parkinson s disease for many yea

I rsquo ve been a subscriber to Entertainment Weekly longer than I rsquo ve been a subscriber to America nbsp And a confession sometimes I enjoy their articles more than I do our own nbsp They rsquo ve got a terrific stable of writers which now includes the priceless Libby Gelman-Waxner nbs

News from the Society of the Sacred Heart comes to us nbsp of the death of Anne Montgomery RSCJ at the age of 85 nbsp Last year she marked her 60th anniversary as a Religious of the Sacred Heart nbsp How blessed are the peacemakers Prominent peace activist Anne Montgomery RSCJ died Monday

Two prominent Catholics have now been invited to pray and speak at the Republican and Democratic national conventions Cardinal Timothy Dolan the archbishop of New York and the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Sister Simone Campbell S S S director of Network

"Vinny" O'Keefe was one of the great figures in contemporary Jesuit history.

My friends over at The Jesuit Post invited me to film their Month in Review video which was lots of fun I had a hard time not laughing with Eric Sundrup SJ and Sam Sawyer SJ the young Jesuit editors from TJP who were filming it here at America House nbsp I hope this short promo encourage