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Welcome Maureen Waldron
I have been doing all the blogging at dotMagis since the site launched last April. To further our goal of making dotMagis an Ignatian community of many voices with...
Social Justice
Ignatius and Poverty
In early November, Santa Clara University held a three-day conference on the legacy of the six Jesuit martyrs nurdered in El Salvador in 1989. Papers from the conference have...
Poetry
Thanksgiving
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: What a Wonderful World
I'll bet that you already know and love this week's Ignatian song, but tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. There's no better time to listen to Louis Armstrong sing "What a...
People
Mary Karr’s Conversion
The poet Mary Karr has just published a new book, Lit, in which she talks about her conversion to Catholicism as well her struggle with alcoholism. She mentions in...
Discernment
Congressman Cao's Discernment
Anh "Joseph" Cao got a lot of attention last December when he became the first Vietnamese-American to be elected to Congress. He was in the news again recently when...