Voices
John A. Coleman S.J., is an associate pastor at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. For many years he was the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His books and other writing have focused largely on areas connected to sociology of religion and also to social ethics. His most recent work has concentrated on issues of globalization.
In All Things
It is not usual to commemorate especially 27th anniversaries Perhaps fittingly since he died at age 27 the 27th anniversary of Bobby Sands lingering death by hunger strike at Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 gets powerfully evoked and the complex issues around it penetratingly r
In All Things
What a difference four years make--or is it merely an ideological shift The National Intelligence Council has been doing every few years projections of global trends for 2010 2015 2020 and just recently November 2008 2025 Four years ago the NIC scenarios saw globalization as irreversible
The composer Olivier Messiaen sought to communicate the mystery of Christ to nonbelievers.
In All Things
On Sunday last I had a conversation with a devout Catholic woman 16 years of Catholic schooling niece of a revered deceased Jesuit of the California province nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital communion minister at her parish who was hopping mad at the California bishops for funding a
In All Things
When I read Holland Carter s near rhapsodic review in the August 7th edition of The New York Times of the current exhibit at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture --you will excuse the pun--I knew I had to see that Gian Lorenzo Bernini show or bust
In All Things
Largely triggered by the benign influence on me of Mary Evelyn Tucker the co-founder of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a 2003 conference for my book Globalization and Catholic Social Thought I have tried for the last five years to stay abreast of the literature on global warming and oth
In All Things
He who sings well prays twice said Saint Augustine and we must not forget that caveat who sings well Music and prayer are closely inter-twined in the great world religions and no one in the twentieth century so inextricably linked the two than the composer and organist Olivier Messiaen
In All Things
I was musing about the day now almost five years ago the War in Iraq began I had already determined that it was not--as a pre-emptive war and a war where the inspection of the UN inspectors was not uncovering any evidence of weapons of mass destruction--a just war No war which ended up being cal
Books
There has been a great deal of anecdotal speculation about religious proclivities and spiritual seeking among so-called Generation X the children of the baby boomers Robert Wuthnow a professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University take