Jim's Books
Ignatian Prayer
For Lent, Try An Ignatian Prayer Adventure (Online Retreat)
What are you doing for Lent? Am I the first to ask? Ash Wednesday is only two weeks from today--a date I've been keenly aware of because I've been very...
Books
Fictitious Priests
If you like to read novels about priests, Doris Donnelly of John Carroll University has six suggestions.
My book group has read four of the six in recent years. I'd...
People
An Arrupe Anniversary
Sunday is the anniversary of the death of Pedro Arrupe, SJ, superior general of the Jesuits from 1965-83. He was a charismatic man who led the Jesuits through a...
Videos
Xavier Statue
Late last year, Xavier University in Cincinnati unveiled a new statue of its patron, St. Francis Xavier. The sculptor, Tom Tsuchiya, worked on it for a year. In this...
Books
Literary Pilgrimages
Some years ago I saw a manuscript in the British Library that is thought to have been written by Shakespeare himself in his own hand. I was amazed and moved. His...
Videos
In Spite of Darkness
"In Spite of Darkness" is an award-winning documentary about an interfaith retreat at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, where more than 1 million people, nearly all of...