Accompaniment, not technology, might be the most caring thing we can offer those facing death.
Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.
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The model of a Catholic teacher: Cardinal Avery Dulles
Avery Dulles’ thousands of students remember him for the clarity of what he taught and wrote as a theologian and teacher. But he was more than that…
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Three ways to make decisions like a Jesuit
St. Ignatius suggests three possible intellectual and emotional “times” of one’s life “in any of which a sound and good election can be made.”
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The Muslim enemies of peaceful Islam have once again tried to assassinate Bacha Khan.
If nothing else proves the malevolence of the Taliban, the events of Jan. 20, 2016 confirm the depths to which these fanatics have descended.
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What I learned from Muslims about God
What I learned from Muslims about God
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Revisionist Islam: The origins of a modern nightmare in Iraq and Syria
‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice,” Karl Marx notes in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852). “He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” Entirely too many protagonist
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One Pilgrim’s Progress: When Malcolm X became El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
We have been deluged with 50th anniversaries in recent months. This past November the nation stopped to remember the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. On a more frivolous note, much has been made of the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ first appearance on American television on Feb.
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To Sacrifice an Only Son: A reflection on three Abrahams
I know several Abrahams. Let me mention three, two living and one dead. Ibrahim A. works on the maintenance staff of Loyola Jesuit College on the outskirts of Abuja in Nigeria. A Jukun from Taraba state in northeastern Nigeria, Ibrahim is a Catholic, although many of his closest relatives belong to
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Forming Bonds
Professor Akbar Ahmed a genial Pakistani scholar trained in Britain and now established at Washingtons American University as holder of the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies took a study trip with three undergraduates through much of the Muslim world in the spring semester of 2006 Journey Into