Jesuit
Caring more for each other could have ameliorated the pandemic. It’s not too late.
By Thomas Reese — March 24, 2020
(RNS) — A crisis either makes us better or worse people; it never leaves us the same.
Pope meets with Jesuit priest James Martin to discuss LGBTQ ministry
By Thomas Reese — September 30, 2019
(RNS) — The meeting is typical of a pope who recognizes that we are all sinners, even himself, and that we are all on a common pilgrimage toward God.
New cardinals: The men are the message
By Thomas Reese — September 12, 2019
(RNS) — By making these men cardinals, the pope is handing them megaphones.
Paul Ryan doesn’t have a prayer
By Jacob Lupfer — April 27, 2018
(RNS) — The House speaker should not capitulate to the most odious and extreme impulses of his caucus. (Commentary)
A Catholic priest is mediating Mugabe’s departure
By Lauren Markoe — November 16, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The Rev. Fidelis Mukonori agreed on Wednesday (Nov. 15) to mediate between Mugabe and the military shortly after the country's generals arrested the 93-year-old authoritarian leader.
Bishop McElroy decries extremism on religious freedom, calls for solidarity in American politics
By Thomas Reese — November 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego criticized both extremes in the fight over religious freedom and called for public consensus based on solidarity to heal our nation in this hyper-partisan age.
Beyond Halloween: Witches, devils, trials and executions
By Thomas Reese — October 24, 2017
(RNS) — As Halloween approaches, the Rev. David Collins, a Jesuit professor of history at Georgetown University, takes us back to a time in European history when witches were persecuted and executed by society.
‘Amoris Laetitia’ revisited
By Thomas Reese — October 10, 2017
(RNS) — The document encouraged the church to meet people where they are and then accompany them on their journey toward God. But who is going to do this accompanying?
Seminary cancels talk by priest who urges dialogue with gays
By Rachel Zoll — September 16, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Far-right Catholic websites and some conservative Catholic writers have denounced a book by the Rev. James Martin advocating for more compassion for gays within the church, and that has led to online campaigns to pressure Catholic institutions against hosting him.
Q&A: Rev. James Martin contemplates reaction to his book on LGBT Catholics
By Charles C. Camosy — September 13, 2017
(RNS) — 'What most LGBT Catholics want first is simply to feel at home in their parishes, and not be treated like dirt, which many of them are,' said the Rev. James Martin, author of a new book on the Roman Catholic Church and LGBT people.
Nice guy or tough guy? The two faces of Pope Francis
By Christopher Lamb — June 19, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Underneath the pope’s compassion is a steely side, which he’s particularly ready to use when it comes to priests, bishops or cardinals he feels are undermining the church’s mission.
Martin Scorsese meets pope as film on Jesuits screens in Rome
By RNS staff — November 30, 2016
(Reuters) For Scorsese, the meeting came almost thirty years after his film 'The Last Temptation of Christ' outraged many conservative Christians.
New Jesuit leader is Latin American, like the pope
By Josephine McKenna — October 14, 2016
ROME (RNS) The Rev. Arturo Sosa is the first Latin American to hold the post, much as Pope Francis, also a Jesuit, is the first Latin American elected to the papacy.
Tim Kaine’s Jesuit spirituality just might appeal to ‘nones’
By Elizabeth Drescher — July 25, 2016
(RNS) In choosing Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton has shifted the religious narrative of the election away from the false equation of “religion” and “Christianity” with radical, conservative, evangelicalism.
Funeral for the Rev. Daniel Berrigan held in New York
By Heidi Thompson — May 6, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) A photo gallery of the Jesuit peace activist's funeral.
