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The New Testament is really about Jesus Christ. All the Old Testament leads up to the coming of Jesus Christ who is described in the Catechism--Mediator and Fullness of All Revelation" (65-72)."...
Justin Glyn, an Australian Jesuit, writes of his experiences as a parish priest for two weeks in Canada's Northern lands....
Part 2 of this series about the new Catechism looks at the presentation of Jewish history in a digest form....
Mothers bear extraordinary graces, especially when Garrett Gundlach, SJ forgets that the mother is pregnant. Reposted from The Jesuit Post....
In 1992, Pope John Paul II authorized a new Catechism of the Catholic Church, a 700 page comprehensive explanation of the teachings of the Church. Since then , a smaller version for youth was published. This series will try to explain various teachings of the Catechism in a simple way that hopefully will be easily understood ....
An English Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 – 1889) was not widely known as a poet until after he died; his collected poems were first published in 1918 at the instigation of his friend Robert Bridges, who was at the time the Poet Laureate of England. Hopkins was both an observant lover of natural beauty and a deeply faithful man who suffered from depression, themes that reoccur in many of his poems. As a poet, he was also an experimenter, relying on alliteration, innovative meter, and created words, as well as on traditional forms such as the sonnet....
On November 29, Martin Scorsese held a private screening in Rome for his new film - Silence - about Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan. Tom Michel, SJ attended the screening and wrote the following exclusively for igNation....
When you stop to consider it, we can see the great service that the truly poor offer those of us who are more well off....
The Camino of Santiago has grown in popularity over the last 20 years. Jeffrey Burwell,SJ shares his experience of this 840-kilometre trek across the ancient pilgrimage route in Spain....
When Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen died recently, an Irish Jesuit pointed out that his surname -– Cohen – actually means "priest" in Hebrew. His favourite book was the Bible. And the word with which he'll always be associated is "Hallelujah", a wonderful word, combining two Hebrew words, "hallelu" (=praise ye), and "Yah" (=the Lord)....
