Sometime in the late 12th century a monk named Guigo, the second prior of the monastery of the Grand Chartreuse in France, wrote to his friend Gervase about...
Religion
How did your love for the Bible develop? I became interested in scripture as a boy. I stutter sometimes, and when I heard that Moses stuttered-that he was...
In the year 373 The See of Milan fell vacant and the emperor dispatched Ambrose, governor of the province and scion of an aristocratic Roman family, to...
You are critical of the prevailing view among Catholics of their own history and role in the United States. What is the story line of the tradition you call...
You've taught scripture for virtually all of your adult life. What led you to devote your life to it? When I was growing up, the Bible was not an honored...
Thenaming in 1997 of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux as a "Doctor of the church" by Pope John Paul II caused Catholics around the...
DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON All people are sacred, made in the image and likeness of God. People do not lose dignity because of disability, poverty, age, lack...
How did you end up being both an astronomer and a Jesuit brother? I was a Sputnik kid. I started school the year Sputnik went up, and I was in high school...
One of the most important decisions the bishops at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) made was their refusal to go along with the secrecy that Vatican...
"Judaism," writes Rabbi Lawrence Kushner in his new book, Jewish Spirituality: A Brief Introduction for Christians(Jewish Lights), "is a...
