by Tim Perron, SJ | Jul 26, 2023 | Current Events ~ Approx. 5 mins
In 1992, Pope Saint John Paul II gave a speech recognizing that the Catholic Church’s condemnation of Galileo, a famous 17th-century astronomer, was mistaken. Galileo held that the Earth revolved around the sun rather than the sun around the Earth. This was a point of...
by Ty Wahlbrink, SJ | May 24, 2023 | Return to the Classics ~ Approx. 7 mins
One of the goals of The Jesuit Post is to create content that can be used in high school and college classrooms. The “Return to the Classics” series is one way we aim to fulfill that goal. Every year, thousands of students at Jesuit schools read a selection of the...
by Ty Wahlbrink, SJ | Apr 19, 2023 | Return to the Classics ~ Approx. 6 mins
One of the goals of The Jesuit Post is to create content that can be used in high school and college classrooms. The “Return to the Classics” series is one way we aim to fulfill that goal. Every year, thousands of students at Jesuit schools read a selection of the...
by Patrick Hyland, SJ | Apr 18, 2023 | Justice ~ Approx. 8 mins
“Slaveholding was always a choice.” This is the running theme in Christopher J. Kellerman’s book, All Oppression Shall Cease: A History of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Catholic Church. The Church’s history of slaveholding then is “not of one choice, but of...
by Sean Barry, SJ | Nov 28, 2022 | Film, Pop Culture ~ Approx. 4 mins
[Warning: This article contains spoilers for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever] How do we deal with grief, with pain and loss? These questions linger in the background throughout the entire film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel’s latest superhero movie. Most fans...
