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OF MANY THINGS he conference room in Senator were trained. The gathering grew in size 106 West 56th Street New York, NY 10019-3803 Elizabeth Warren’s office suite and scope until it was formalized as the Ph: (212) 581-4640; Fax: (212) 399-3596 on Capitol Hill can comfortably Ignatian Family Teach-In in 1998. This Subscriptions: (800) 627-9533 T www.americamedia.org seat a dozen people. But on a Monday year, a record-breaking crowd of 1,600 facebook.com/americamag morning earlier this month, triple that attended. twitter.com/americamag number had crammed themselves into If you’re like me, you greeted with PRESIDENT AND EDITOR IN CHIEF it. A few minutes past 11 o’clock, three dread the release of recent Pew polls Matt Malone, S.J. Warren staffers squeezed their way into showing religion among millennials in EXECUTIVE EDITORS the crowd and, after brief introductions, free fall. But then you attend an event Robert C. Collins, S.J., Maurice Timothy Reidy a young man in jacket and tie rose to like the teach-in, and you’re reminded: MANAGING EDITOR Kerry Weber address them. “As people of faith,” he Ah, right; Jesus promised the Holy Spirit LITERARY EDITOR Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. SENIOR EDITOR AND CHIEF CORRESPONDENT began, “we are motivated to work for to the church until the end of time. Kevin Clarke justice. And so we are here to share our “Where two or three are gathered in my EDITOR AT LARGE James Martin, S.J. concerns about some of the issues our name, there am I in their midst.” And EXECUTIVE EDITOR, AMERICA FIlmS country faces.” The young man, a student where 1,600 are gathered, there is faith Jeremy Zipple, S.J. at Holy Cross College, then motioned to and hope and joy in absurd abundance. POETRY EDITOR Joseph Hoover, S.J. ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND VATICAN CORRESPONDENT his 30 or so companions. All of them, he The young people who show up at Gerard O’Connell explained, were constituents of Warren’s. the annual teach-in do not approach ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL For the next half hour, the students faith casually. They strive daily to STRATEGY Sam Sawyer, S.J. offered the staffers a seminar on three embody the Beatitudes. In the delegation SENIOR EDITOR Edward W. Schmidt, S.J. packed into Senator Warren’s office was ASSOCIATE EDITORS Ashley McKinless, Olga key issues troubling them: immigration Segura, Robert David Sullivan reform, climate change and U.S. a Boston College student who tutors ASSISTANT EDITORS Francis W. Turnbull, S.J., relations with Central America. As these prison inmates, two others who have just Joseph McAuley impressive students were meeting with spent a semester with campesinos in El ART DIRECTOR Sonja Kodiak Wilder Warren, some 1,200 others—most Salvador, a woman who volunteers at a EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Zachary Davis COLUMNISTS Helen Alvaré, John J. Conley, S.J., of them from Jesuit high schools and school in a low-income neighborhood Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., James T. Keane, John W. universities across the country—were and many others like them. Martens, Bill McGarvey, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, conducting similar visits at other America Media was privileged to be Margot Patterson, Nathan Schneider a part of it all. James Martin, S.J., roused CORRESPONDENTS John Carr (Washington), An- congressional offices. thony Egan, S.J., and Russell Pollitt, S.J. (Johannes- The day on Capitol Hill marked the crowd with a talk based on his burg), Jim McDermott, S.J. (Los Angeles), Timothy the culmination of an annual three- book Jesus: A Pilgrimage. Kerry Weber Padgett (Miami), Steven Schwankert (Beijing), David Stewart, S.J. (London), Judith Valente day conference that brings together moderated breakout sessions, and The (Chicago) students from across the Jesuit universe Jesuit Post team handled all social media MODERATOR, CATHOLIC BOOK CLUB and beyond. It’s called the Ignatian for the event. In partnership with the Kevin Spinale, S.J. Family Teach-In for Justice, and this Ignatian Solidarity Network, we also EDITOR, THE JESUIT POST Michael Rossmann, S.J. EDITORIAL E-MAIL year, its agenda featured a keynote tried something new: a collegiate social [email protected] address by Helen Prejean, C.S.J., and justice film festival called Voices From the PUblISHER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER breakout sessions on topics ranging Margins. The contest attracted nearly 70 Edward G. Spallone DEPUTY PUblISHER Rosa M. from income inequality to migration to entries from dozens of schools. We hope Del Saz VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT Daniel human trafficking, intellectual disability the film fest can become another example Pawlus ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Chris Keller DEVELOpmENT COORDINATOR Kerry Goleski and “Laudato Si’.” There was plenty of of the kind of Jesuit and lay collaboration BUSINESS OPERATIONS STAFF Khairah Walker, laughter and tears, reflection and prayer in the arts that Mark Bosco, S.J., writes Glenda Castro, Katy Zhou, Frankarlos Cruz about in this issue (pg. 14). ADVERTISING CONTACT [email protected]; to go around, too. 212-515-0102 SUBSCRIPTION CONTACT/ADDITIONAL The teach-in traces its history to the So if you ever find yourself in need of COPIES 1-800-627-9533 REPRINTS: reprints@ early 1990’s, when, after the deaths of a reminder that the church’s future is in americamedia.org the Salvadoran martyrs in 1989, Jesuits excellent hands, have a look at America’s © 2015 America Press Inc. and others began gathering informally recap video from the weekend, available each year at Fort Benning, Ga., on the on our website, or peruse the winning anniversary of the assassinations. Fort film fest entries at filmfest.americamedia. Cover: People wait in line at the Fred Jordan Benning was the location of the School org. Or pick up the phone and call your Mission annual giveaway of shoes, clothing and backpacks for more than 4,000 homeless and of the Americas, where the Salvadoran congresspersons. Even they will tell you. underprivileged children in Los Angeles, Calif., military leaders behind the murders JEREMY ZIPPLE, S.J. on Oct. 1. Reuters/Lucy Nicholson Contents www.americamagazine.org VOL. 213 NO.16, WHOLE NO. 5109 NOVEMBER 23, 2015 ARTICLES 14 KINDRED SPIRITS Catholic writers inspired by Jesuit friendships Mark Bosco 19 SEASONS OF PRAYER Spirituality for every stage of life Patricia Cooney Hathaway 23 REVERSAL OF FORTUNE The topsy-turvy world of Psalm 118 Daniel F. Polish 14 COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS 4 Current Comment 5 Editorial Family Time 6 Reply All 8 Signs of the Times 12 Column The Pregnancy of Mary Nathan Schneider 26 Vatican Dispatch Francis Looks East Gerard O’Connell 27 Faith in Focus When Did I See Him? Chris Bruno 19 39 The Word Preparing With Love John W. Martens BOOKS & CULTURE 30 THEATER “The Humans” POEM When the Wing Gives Way OF OTHER THINGS Waiting in Hope BOOKS The 51 Day War; Flannery O’Connor; Oscar Romero ON THE WEB Announcing the release of the new book Praying With America . Plus, Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I. , right, talks about Christ’s Passion on “America This Week.” Full digital highlights on page 29 and at americamagazine.org/webfeatures. 30 CURRENT COMMENT constitution’s “robust protections against the use of public Other People’s Families funds for religious education.” The amendment that What may be history’s longest experiment in population provides that “robust protection” was added in 1880. It control ended in late October with China’s announcement that was among similar additions to state constitutions, passed it will abandon its infamous “one child” policy. Chinese families at a time of rising anti-Catholic bigotry, known as “little are still limited to two children, so the experiment is not quite Blaine amendments”—named for the Maine politician complete, but the demise of the uniquely harsh “one child” James G. Blaine, who proposed an amendment to the U.S. rule is welcome news. Not only did the policy create a severe gender imbalance in Chinese society; it also led to a multitude Constitution with the aim of denying public resources of horrors, from forced abortions to involuntary sterilizations. to “sectarian” education. Noting that odious lineage, the It is incredible that the international community allowed these Washington-based Becket Fund filed a friend of the court gross human rights violations to continue for so long with so brief defending the Nevada program on Oct. 28. little protest. Other Western nations have long funded or subsidized Or maybe it isn’t. The Chinese policy was a natural, both public and religious schools. Could the Nevada option if extreme, outgrowth of the international population offer the United States an opportunity to reconsider its control movement, which sees the “population bomb” as a bigoted 19th-century denial of support to Catholic schools? dire environmental threat that must be addressed. These A Nevada court, and perhaps ultimately the U.S. Supreme warnings often come from elite quarters of the developed Court, may have to make that call. But families in Nevada world and are usually aimed at the poorest corners of are already beginning to vote with their feet: 3,600 of them the developing world. China may be the most prominent at last count. example, but it is not the only state to fall prey to these cruel ideas. It is now clear that population control measures have Turkey’s Putin? an especially harsh effect on women, a tragic fact that public Given the landslide victory that voters gave the Justice and opinion is finally beginning to notice. Development Party in the parliamentary elections in Turkey on Pope Francis received criticism this summer when, in Nov.

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