Remembering Fr. Paul Mankowski

by Tony Abbott

Paul Mankowski was probably the most striking man I have ever met. Continue Reading »

4 Sep 2020

AM[D]G

by George Weigel

Jesuit secondary education is unlikely to produce leaders if its self-presentation brackets God. Continue Reading »

5 Aug 2020

Jesuits and The Catholic Mind

by K. E. Colombini

Despite our concerns about the Jesuits’ orthodoxy today, we must not forget the great Jesuits that deserve to be praised and remembered. Continue Reading »

6 May 2019

Lessons from Father Schall

by Sean Salai

Fr. Schall faced his decline with characteristic perspective. Continue Reading »

25 Apr 2019

Pope Francis’s Dichotomies

by Paul Seaton

Pope Francis’s thought involves a series of dichotomies: North-South, imperial-populist, ideological-historical, abstract-concrete, and so on. Rourke shows in detail the intellectual formation that gave rise to this eccentric version of the social magisterium. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017

Jesuits Respond to R. R. Reno

by Vincent L. Strand and Sam Zeno Conedera

Dear Dr. Reno: Your First Things article “A Stubborn Givenness” (April 12, 2016) sought to explain Pope Francis and Amoris Laetitia in terms of his being a Jesuit, following the trajectory you began in the article “Francis, Our Jesuit Pope” (September 23, 2013). “Stubborn,” in a more . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Apr 2016

The Evangelical Academy

by Richard J. Mouw

We were doing an interview on an NPR station, a kind of “point-counterpoint” thing. The other interviewee was a self-identified agnostic , and the topic was the rights of academic institutions to “discriminate” on the basis of religious beliefs. My dialogue partner was not overtly hostile to religion as such. Indeed he said some nice things about the school where I was president at the time. Fuller Seminary produces some excellent scholarship based on our religious convictions, he observed. But why do we hire only folks who subscribe to those convictions? Having religious beliefs is fine, he said. But for institutions to hire only faculty who subscribe to those beliefs is contrary to the principles of academic inquiry. Continue Reading »

7 Aug 2014

A Penny for the Guy

by Amy Welborn

Within two weeks of his return from Rome in 1586, Father Robert Garnet had been selected to be the superior of the Jesuit mission in England. For twenty years he persisted: traveling, hiding, celebrating the sacraments, and coordinating the movements of his brother priests. By 1606, however, Garnet . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2006

From Aquinas to Aquarius

by Edward T. Oakes

In his witty and affectionate autobiography, Ours: The Making and Unmaking of a Jesuit, the Islamicist F. E. Peters has this to say about his Jesuit training: “It was a marvelous nineteenth century English university education of the type that Arnold Toynbee believed he was among the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1992