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The story of the trial crucifixion and death of Jesus of Nazareth which is recited sung and often acted out in churches on Palm Sunday speaks for itself This is one reason why preachers are encouraged keep their homilies short that day Or as the pastor of the local Jesuit church told me ldq

America was one of the many participants in the 2012 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress nbsp For those who haven t experienced Congress it s hard to describe the sheer nbsp magnitude of the event tens of thousands of Catholics both clergy and lay from around the world doing nbsp almost

The Rev Robert Barron author and host of the widely successful book and series Catholicism which was reviewed recently in America by Tim Reidy reviews the hit movie The Hunger Games from a very Catholic and very thoughtful point of view nbsp Certainly it s the only review you ll prob

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