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Jesuit Basketball
Jesuit colleges played five basketball games against each other this past weekend -- four men's games and one women's. The marquee game was Georgetown vs. Marquette, with the Hoyas...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel’s Oboe
This is the second time "Gabriel's Oboe" has appeared in our occasional "Best Ignatian Songs" feature. (The first time is here.) The occasion is the opening of a musical...
Jesuit History
Running the Jesuit Numbers
For a a global view of the Society of Jesus, examine The Changing Jesuit Geography, a paper by Thomas P. Gaunt, SJ, executive director of the Center for Applied...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Live Chat with a Vatican Astronomer
Brother Guy Consolmango, SJ, an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory, will give an online talk and chat today at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. Just go to this link. The...
St. Ignatius Loyola
Ignatius’s Management Style
One of Ignatius's secretaries, Father Gonçalves da Camara, recalled his management style and method of making decisions.
Our Father is accustomed to being so firm in things which he...
Spiritual Exercises
The Fruit of Desolation
Years ago, Austen Ivereigh, executive editor of The Tablet made a 30-day Spiritual Exercises retreat when he was a Jesuit novice. He spent most of the time in a...