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 quite rare that a film haunts me for several days after seeing it making me imagine again its mesmerizing scenery and characters and wonder at its elegant if fierce intensity yet gentle and decent humanity Watching Winter rsquo s Bone which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year rsquo s S
In All Things
Pundits have mused that Al Gore needs to produce an imperative sequel to his documentary An Inconvenient Truth In this second version he would explain why mdash given the great even overwhelming convergence among scientists on the primarily human caused global warming--so few people seem to r
In All Things
nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp I had just finished reading Father Gregory Boyle S J rsquo s penetratingly spiritual truly hope-filled and uplifting book Tattoos on the Heart The Power of Boundless Compassion It had made my own
In All Things
The eight UN Millennial Goals were unveiled with great splash and fanfare in 2000 with 189 UN member states formally endorsing them as a sort of solemn covenant The eight goals encapsulated previously agreed upon targets from a number of special UN sessions on international development With the
In All Things
I was recently asked to write a ldquo white paper rdquo draft for the California Catholic Bishops for possible voting on the issue of life-sentence without parole for juveniles The United States Supreme Court currently is adjudicating two petitions from incarcerated prisoners from the State of
In All Things
I am always looking out for good Lenten spiritual reading What I look for especially are books about conversion repentance deeper prayer transformation mdash all core Lenten themes It turns out a Jesuit housemate of mine Dan Kendall S J edited recently some earlier from 1975 lost writi
In All Things
The last several years have been exceedingly unkind to Scientology In 2007 the Belgian State Prosecution Office announced that it thought the organization should be prosecuted for crime In late October 2009 a French court found Scientology France guilty of severe fraud in ldquo cheating rdquo
The Good Word
I have been musing about what it means to be beginning Ordinary Time for 2010 In one sense the term has a simple liturgical meaning Ordinary Time begins on the Monday after the Second nbsp Sunday of the Year The Baptism of the Lord There is paradoxically no first Sunday in Ordinary Time
In All Things
I have been musing about what it means to be beginning Ordinary Time for 2010 In one sense the term has a simple liturgical meaning Ordinary Time begins on the Monday after the Second nbsp Sunday of the Year The Baptism of the Lord There is paradoxically no first Sunday in Ordinary Time
In All Things
I turned from being relatively indifferent to perhaps even a skeptic about global warming into someone who takes its peril quite seriously when I first read Tim Flannery rsquo s 2001 book The Weather Makers How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth Flannery has now