Jim's Books
Ignatian Voices
What Jesuits Are Like
Jesuits educated me (St. Peter's College), they employ me (Loyola Press), and they pastor me (St. Mary Student Parish, Ann Arbor). So I'm very interested in how the Jesuits...
Books
Thrift Store Saints
Fifteen years ago, Jane Knuth wandered into the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store in Kalamazoo, Michigan, looking to buy a rosary for her daughter's First Communion. She became...
Videos
Appreciating Newman
Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ, discusses Blessed John Henry Newman's insights into conscience, an educated laity, reason, and the importance of our ordinary experience in this video from America magazine. Also...
Media
The Pope and the Elderly
During his recent trip to the UK, Pope Benedict visited a Catholic nursing home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. The 83-year-old pope identified with the elderly...
Spiritual Exercises
A Judge for the Spiritual Exercises
The Spiritual Exercises were originally given in a month-long retreat of about 30 days. Today, the most common way to make the Exercises is a nine-month program usually called...
Jesuit History
A Story Told by an Olive
The story of St. Ignatius has been told many times, usually with great solemnity as befitting one of the church's great saints. Here's a different way to do it. The narrator...