Just as interesting as nbsp Andrew J Garavel s nbsp review of the new play Temporal Powers is the story of its recovery and the unfairly forgotten Irish playwright Teresa Deevy nbsp Fr Garavel a Jesuit priest and assistant professor of English at Santa Clara is also something of a special

Interviewed by Our Sunday Visitor in their latest issue nbsp Love the cover OSV You wrote that humor should be seen as a requirement in a Church leader Why do you think it rsquo s such an important attribute nbsp Father Martin First it rsquo s important to have a sense of humility and pover

The America community readers viewers etc will remember the Rev Michael Ryan s article What if We Just Said Wait which proposed delaying the roll-out of the new English translation of the Roman Missal scheduled for this Advent nbsp The article drew 239 online comments was linked to an

While the nbsp topic shouldn t overshadow the magnitude of the memorial services I agree with the much of the criticism over the exclusion of clergy from the official 9 11 ceremony in New York City nbsp An article in the New York Times Omitting Clergy at 9 11 Ceremony Prompts Protest nbsp by

From America s issue of Oct 1 2001 On Sept 13 two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I had been there ea

Talking with Vatican Radio on 9 11 and the spiritual legacy of Ground Zero

The nbsp inspiring story of the New England Jesuits who founded and ran Baghdad College that city s premier high school for several decades is well known to Jesuits nbsp The Society was summarily kicked out of the country when the Baath party came to power nbsp nbsp The school s nbsp alumni

My experience of 9/11 was not simply one of tragedy but also of resurrection.

From Our Sunday Visitor s story on unsettling findings from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate CARA A new survey conducted by the nbsp Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate nbsp CARA at Georgetown University indicates that more than three in four adult Catholics in the U

Michael Rossmann SJ a Jesuit scholastic from the Wisconsin Province is with the millions of young people at World Youth Day in Madrid after having participated with many of his Jesuit brothers in the Magis Program of Ignatian spirituality in Loyola Spain nbsp nbsp Michael is also reportin