While certainly an unorthodox choice, “Carrion Comfort,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., fits with the Christian roots of Halloween as an appraisal of faith in the face of horror.

A Hopkins Reader, the latest tribute to him, links Poet Hopkins and Jesuit Hopkins by assembling selections from his letters, journals and sermons as well as 33 of his best poems.

Becoming a Jesuit seems to be a decision he never regretted, but as Mariani makes painfully clear, it was not generally a good fit either for Hopkins or for the Jesuits, who apparently did not ...

The Jesuits sent Hopkins to the squalid Liverpool slums as parish priest. “Vice and horrors nearly killed him,” and the lush style of his sermons flabbergasted his congregation: ...

When the young English Jesuit novice Gerard Manley Hopkins submitted his poem The Wreck of the Deutschland to the Jesuit magazine The Month, the editors accepted the unusual thirty-five stanza ...

Hopkins seems to think the whole universe is wonderful. ... during a discussion of the English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem God’s Grandeur.

Living in Wales and Ireland in the latter half of the 19th century, ignored by the literary establishment, Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote a series of extraordinary religious poems that ...

Hopkins in the autumn of 1875 was studying theology at a small Jesuit college, Saint Beuno’s, in North Wales, preparatory for his ordination to the priesthood. News came to tincommunity of a ...

“Exiles” by Santa Clara professor Ron Hansen, is the brave fictional account of the life of English Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), and of his writing “The Wreck of the ...