Jim's Books
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...
Poetry
i thank you God
e.e. cummings' poem "i thank You God for most this amazing day" is a lyric of thanksgiving. Read it here. Here it is read by Cummings himself. (Click here if you...
Ignatian Voices
A Litany of Gifts
I love Thanksgiving. It's less hectic than Christmas, and it's mainly about enjoying family and friends (food too, of course). A few years ago, the late John Kavanaugh, SJ,...
Jesuit History
UCA Martyrs Anniversary
Last Friday was the 23rd anniversary of the deaths of the UCA martyrs--six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter who were murdered at the University of Central America in...
Retreats
Three-Minute Retreat
On the Web, unlike older forms of publishing, everything that publishers do can be measured. Recently the Web team at Loyola Press looked at the numbers and discovered that...