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The Creator Deals Directly with the Creature

A comment about the early JesuitsThere was, however, one “doctrine” that was fundamental for them, one that gave orientation to all their ministries and...

Faith and the Cosmos

In a recent article in America, Adam Hincks, SJ, says that cosmologists don't have definitive answers to the two questions most people have about...

Traveling the Ignatian Way

Pilgrims are now walking and biking the new Ignatian Way pilgrimage route in northern Spain, which follows the route Ignatius walked in 1522 after...

A Jesuit on the Titanic

Sunday was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and it turns out that there's a Jesuit angle to the tragic story. ...

The Jesuit Style

There's little doubt that there's a Jesuit "style."  The Jesuits themselves call it "our way of proceeding."  A recent article on MiradaGlobal.com found five...

Teach Me to Be Generous

A while back, I felt deflated when I discovered that the wonderful Prayer of St. Francis ("Lord, make me an instrument of your peace")...

Scorsese’s Next Film?

There have been rumblings about director Martin Scorsese making a film of Shusaku Endo's magnificent historical novel Silence, about Japanese martyrs of the 17th...

Why Edgar Allen Poe Liked the Jesuits

Church historian Pat McNamara writes about how the Jesuits at St. John's College (later Fordham University) befriended Edgar Allen Poe in the last years...

Losing One’s Life

Luis Espinal, SJ, is a Jesuit hero I hadn't heard about.  He was a Spanish Jesuit who worked for social justice in Bolivia.  He...

Things Change in Montmartre

In 1534, Ignatius and his companions went to the church of Sainte Pierre in the village of Montmartre north of Paris, and  took vows...

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