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How Does Hope Shape Us?

A driving dynamic of Advent is hope. If we had nothing to hope for, there would be no point to this season. The original...

Brackley on Falling in Love

Dean Brackley, the late Jesuit educator who spent many years teaching in El Salvador, wrote a beautiful meditation on what it feels like to...

Day's Letter to an Agnostic

Dorothy Day's 1934 Letter to an Agnostic is republished in this week's America Magazine. In it, she writes about her own struggles with belief and...

Do Not Delay

The last straw which led to Saint Augustine's conversion to Christianity was the voice of a child, playing a game in which he chanted...

What Ignatius Would Say to Lay Persons

Human life has meaning. We are not aimless beings, without a goal or purpose. We have been created by a God who loves us....

Jesus the Layman

In his forthcoming book Catholicism, Fr. Robert Barron makes the passing observation that Jesus was a layman: he was not trained in one of...

What Do You Like about Ignatian Spirituality?

Two things, says Katie, who went on a Charis Ministries retreat a few months ago.  (Click here if you can't see the video.)

More Muldoon

dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has been writing an excellent weekly column at the website Patheos, which is devoted to "a global dialogue about religion...

The World as It Really Is

A reflection for Holy Week: Those who really do know and love will . . . see the suffering of all the people whom...

The Danger of Excessive Spiritual Practices

St. Ignatius, writing to Jesuits in Portugal, about the problems with spiritual disciplines that he deemed excessive:The first is that God is not really...

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