Since this list is getting some play on the web I figured I would post it here since I wrote it nbsp I had cobbled together this top-ten list for the promotion of The Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything and it will appear in the paperback edition some time next year nbsp Let me know if I lef

Taking a break from vacation for this public-service announcement Don t miss this forceful talk by Bishop Arthur Serratelli bishop nbsp of the diocese of Paterson nbsp N J to the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management nbsp at their annual June meeting at the Wharton School in Phil

Jake Martin SJ a Jesuit scholastic and frequent contributor to our pages and our webpages had a horror of what the French call les nbsp cin eacute astes nbsp those nbsp tr egrave s serieux scholars of film who wax poetic about Godard Rohmer Resnais Truffaut et al nbsp But the recently rem

Looking for some good solid basic inviting user-friendly books on the faith nbsp My friend Msgr Peter Vaghi a nbsp fine writer indefatigable priest and pastor of Little Flower Church in Bethesda Md is hard at work on a fine new series of books on our faith that would prove inordinately u

This month on newsstands and in bookstores you ll find a terrific new book which I highly recommend To coincide with the centennial of the birth of Mother Teresa Time has published nbsp Mother Teresa at 100 The Life and Works of a Modern Saint It s a fantastic introduction to her life writte

A fine new movie Lebanon the winner of the 2009 Venice Film Festival has just been released in the States nbsp John McCarthy in a review on our online Culture section calls it bracing operatic and vivid nbsp His review begins Wolfgang Petersen rsquo s 1981 submarine thriller Das

An excerpt from ‘The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything,’ by Father James Martin

Before I leave for a retreat I thought I d post this video from the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management on the topic of joy during times of adversity nbsp The talk was nbsp at their annual meeting this June at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphi

If the above title sounds a little inside baseball to you a very very very brief nbsp explanation nbsp Alice von Hildebrand is a Catholic philosopher and theologian and also nbsp the widow of Dietrich nbsp von Hildebrand a prominent philosopher and moral theologian active in the anti-Nazi

News from the Telegraph Maria Jepsen 65 came under fire for her handling of the case of a pastor accused of abusing young boys and girls in the 1970s and 1980s in her northern nbsp German nbsp diocese of Hamburg She reportedly knew for several years about the case but failed to act My credibili