America Magazine, along with La CiviltÃ Cattolica and other Jesuit publications around the world, has published an interview with Pope Francis, well worth the...

Best Ignatian Songs: Holy Darkness

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

Reader Nancy Walton-House nominates this week's Best Ignatian Song. It's a lovely piece: “Holy Darkness" by Dan Schutte, one of the St. Louis Jesuits....

Best Ignatian Songs: Anima Christi

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

Here is a beautiful choral setting of the Anima Christi, the prayer that Ignatius placed at the beginning of the Spiritual Exercises. This is...

Best Ignatian Songs: You Are My Vision

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

Discerning reader Andrew nominated the classic hymn "Be Thou my Vision" as a Best Ignatian Song. You'll probably recognize it. I've sung it in...

Puttering Prayer

Ignatian Prayer Becky Eldredge

The rhythm of my prayer life is always interesting to watch: the ebb and flow of rich, fruitful prayer that at times transforms to...

The Calling of St. Matthew

Ignatian Voices Jim Manney

Caravaggio's painting The Calling of St. Matthew is a great work of art that captures the truth of a great Ignatian theme—the power of...

The Earthen Vessel

Ignatian Prayer Marina Berzins McCoy

Ignatian contemplation is most often associated with praying imaginatively with a scene from the Gospels, but I also find praying with particular simple images...

Best Ignatian Songs: The Wings of a Dove

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

There's a real tear-jerker scene in the movie Tender Mercies when Mac Sledge's estranged daughter asks him to sing the song "The Wings of...

Fr. Nicolás on Silence

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

The prospect of becoming a "contemplative in action" is one of the most appealing features of Ignatian spirituality. I like what Fr. Adolfo Nicolás,...