The Times profiles Eddie Siebert, SJ, and Loyola Productions. N.T. Wright on the Resurrection and Ross Douthat on eternal life. Vincent Strand, SJ, on baseball (“T.S. Eliot could not have been a baseball fan, for no baseball fan would ever write, ‘April is the cruellest month’”). The nun behind the Xavier University basketball team. Resources: [...]
Ann Boyd on the benefits of the Examen (“It connects my seemingly irrational emotional life with the workings of God”). An Evangelical compares the Ignatian charism to Rick Warren’s and Bill Hybel’s (and Francis’s, Dominic’s, and Benedict’s). Running the Catholic numbers: Catholics, bishops, priests up; women religious down. Jake Martin, SJ, on snark (“the glorification [...]
Vincent Strand, SJ, on Therese of Lisieux’s mission to modernity. The Catholic fiction of Alice McDermott in America. Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ, explains why the Vatican has an observatory. The religious fiction of Uwem Apkan, SJ.