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Forgetting to Remember

Today's jolt arrived mid-afternoon when I hauled out a (paper!) calendar to jot something down. The square for September 1st remained unadorned by red...

Unwritten Rules

Recently, tempers flared in a close game between the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Angels. The Angel pitcher got mad at a Tiger...

World Youth Day

Please keep the pilgrims at World Youth Day (WYD) in your prayers. I am at the Jesuit-run Colegio Nuestra Señora del Recuerdo with hundreds...

Doing Too Much

A customary question in a job interview is, “What are your weaknesses?” The customary answer is, “Sometimes I take on too much work,” “I...

More Lay Saints Please

The other day I browsed through Bert Ghezzi's great book Voices of the Saints looking for saints who would inspire kids aged about 10-12--the...

The Life of Pilgrimage

I am in China with my family on a heritage tour, a pilgrimage of sorts.  Those familiar with my book Longing to Love know...

St. Ignatius and the Yoga Center

Growing up Jewish in Northern Jersey, what did I know about St. Ignatius Loyola? Not much. Fast forward to the late 1980s and I'm...

Globalization of Superficiality

Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, spoke to Belgian Jesuits in September 2010 about a "globalization of superficiality," a result...

You Are What You Eat

These days I am trying to get my daughters to eat better food than the usual kid fare of mac 'n' cheese, hotdogs, and...

Holy Imitation

The decisive moment in Ignatius's life came when he realized that he was imitating the wrong person. He realized that imitating the example of...

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