UCA Martyrs Anniversary
Last Friday was the 23rd anniversary of the deaths of the UCA martyrs--six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter who were murdered at the...
Pilgrimage Opportunity
If you've ever thought of making an Ignatian pilgrimage, here's your chance. A few spaces are left on a pilgrimage sponsored by St. Beuno's...
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...
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