James Martin SJ is the culture editor of America magazine the national Catholic Weekly published by the Jesuits. He is the author of numerous books including My Life with the Saints and The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything but is perhaps best known as "chaplain" to The Colbert Report due to his frequent appearances on the show.

	March 11th, 2010 Spiritual but not religious — Not so fast! Making the case for moving beyond your own personal God Everybody seems to be spiritual these days — from your college roommate, to the person in the office cubicle next to yours, to every other ...
	November 4th, 2009 What does the Vatican’s acceptance of Anglican priests mean for Catholics? Editor's Note:  For an answer this week, BustedHalo® turns to America Magazine and Fr. James Martin for his take on Anglicans and Catholics: ...
	August 8th, 2009 I heard Mary’s parents are saints. If that is true, why? They weren’t the ones carrying the Lord to full term. They might not have been the ones carrying Jesus to full term but Catholic belief is that Joachim and Anne--the traditional names given to Mary's parents--were holy people in their right.  (They are, by the way, the patron ...
	March 12th, 2009 What the Hell is Purgatory? A mixed-media guide to the afterlife "None of us are perfect but all of us are on a journey toward God" is one of the ways we use to explain what the name Busted Halo® means. Given our name it is ...
	February 11th, 2009 St. Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes ...on the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes On February 11, 1858, Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes ( January 7, 1844 - April 16, 1879) was gathering firewood when she had a vision of the Virgin Mary in a grotto near town. This ...
	December 29th, 2008 Faithful Departed—Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ (1918-2008) Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, who died at 90 on December 12, was the scion of a legendary family (his father, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary ...
	December 12th, 2008 The Gospel According to Philip Seymour Hoffman Before "Doubt" the Oscar winner found the spirit on stage in an "unwieldy" Jesus With the much-anticipated release of Doubt, Philip Seymour Hoffman is once again receiving the kind of critical kudos reserved for actors who are generally tagged ...
	December 10th, 2008 The Belly of a Paradox Forty years after his death, Thomas Merton still causes controversy Forty years ago today, Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and perhaps the most popular American Catholic writer in history, stepped out of a bathroom shower ...
	October 28th, 2008 Saints and All Hallows Eve What does All Saints Day have to do with Halloween? Father James Martin, SJ, author of My Life with the Saints, talks about the connection between Halloween (October 31) and ...
	September 11th, 2008 A Nun’s Life Wacky women or the first feminists? Three books to help you decide for yourself. At the end of August, an Italian priest was forced to scuttle his plans for an online beauty pageant for nuns, because it had been, ...
	August 27th, 2008 End-of-Summer Reading Three suggestions for when you get back from the beach Uh oh. Summer’s almost over and you haven’t finished Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain like you said were going to? Haven’t gotten around ...
	January 10th, 2008 Surprised by Joy Behar's bad "View" on Saints Whoopi Goldberg is a great comedian. So is Joy Behar. But, as it turns out, they're not great theologians. On the daytime talk show "The View" this past Wednesday, ...
	February 7th, 2007 “Are Y’havin’ a Laff?” The painfully amusing genius of HBO's "Extras" Andy Millman is the patron saint of resentment. The perpetually put-upon actor has love handles but no love life, recently landed a role in a sitcom that has ...
	December 30th, 2006 The Faithful Departed: Mary Luke Tobin, SL (1908-2006) The Only American Woman Invited to Participate at Vatican II On August 24, in the motherhouse of the Sisters of Loretto, in Nerinx, Kentucky, one of the towering leaders of the Catholic church died. She was 98. Though Mary ...
	February 18th, 2005 Praying with the Saints or Saint Jude, the sock drawer and me When I was very young, I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a statue of Saint Jude. I can't begin to imagine which magazine this might have been, ...
	October 2nd, 2004 True Tales from the Pews The Worst Homily Ever Would you believe that a priest actually preached about the dangers of contraception to a group of nursing home residents? Not long ago a member of my Jesuit ...