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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...
Jesuit History
The Rooms of St. Ignatius
Here is a wonderful virtual tour of the rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome. He lived and worked in these rooms for almost 20 years as the first Superior...
Jesuit History
How to Talk to People
Advice from Ignatius, writing to Jesuits participating in the Council of Trent:
Be prudent. "When speaking in any conversation, do not think you are talking in private, but...