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Dave Brubeck, RIP
The jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, who died yesterday, was intensely interested in spiritual things. He said once that “something should be done musically to strengthen man's knowledge of...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: "O Come O Come Emmanuel"
It's early December, winter, cold mornings and barren landscapes and leaden skies. It's the time of Advent--the season of longing for the light of Christ to break into our world....
Books
Ignatian Themes in Becoming Catholic, Again
Catherine Brunell discusses the Ignatian themes in her book, Becoming Catholic, Again, with Tim Muldoon.
Brunell will be leading an Advent retreat on the Loyola Press Facebook page starting on...
Poetry
John O’Donohue on Noticing
I hadn't known about the priest-poet John O'Donohue until I read this post by Michelle Francl-Donnay. The poem "A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted" might have been inspired...
People
The Case for Dorothy Day
At first the idea of Dorothy Day being proclaimed a saint seemed unlikely to say the least. She was a leftist, a pacifist, a critic of bishops, a gadfly...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Fr. Nicolás on Secularization
Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, Jesuit superior general, spent most of his career in Japan. Here he contrasts aggressive secularism in the west with a secularism in Japan that is...