My students and I at Fordham have been reading Shushaku Endo s Silence this week as part of a class on Catholic novels Translated by William Johnston S J whose long and distinguished career includes a recent essay published in America the novel treats the struggles of Christian missionari

Enough the Resurrection A heart s-clarion Away grief s gasping joyless days dejection Across my foundering deck shone A beacon an eternal beam Flesh fade and mortal trash Fall to the residuary worm world s wildfire leave but ash In a flash at a trumpet crash I am all at once w

There have been spades of media reports this Lent about other Christian denominations in the United States taking on and adapting traditionally Catholic devotions and Lenten practices as a young single friend of mine recently said gone are the days when Ash Wednesday at work could double for twent

The news from New Haven is that former British Prime Minister and recent convert to Catholicism Tony Blair will teach a seminar at Yale University next year on Faith and Globalization Or considering his side of the pond Globalisation Blair will serve as the Howland Distinguished Fellow

A reminder to America s readers that we are conducting as part of our upcoming centennial celebration an essay contest on the topic of The Case for God Secular and religious media alike have been abuzz over the past year about the sudden flurry of books by aggressive and polemically-minde

Jesuit scholastic Ryan Duns SJ recently read Anne Rice s new book on the life of Jesus Christ the Lord The Road to Cana and found much to praise in a review on his blog A sequel to Rice s Christ the Lord Out of Egypt it suggests this famous author and recent convert has found Jesus

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The disappointing news from Britain in the article linked here is unfortunately just the first in a number of such political compromises we will see in coming months as the world amps up for this summer s Beijing Olympics British athletes going to China CNN reports will have to sign a contr

The night before my sister’s wedding five summers ago, my family and our new in-laws gathered for dinner at an Italian restaurant in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Because mine is a big family—I am the sixth of eight children, and my siblings have among them 14 offspring—we chose this