Just Because It’s Friday
We've been very serious on dotMagis this week. Let's lighten up on Friday. Kick back, relax, and listen to the greatest song...
What Jesuits Are Like
Jesuits educated me (St. Peter's College), they employ me (Loyola Press), and they pastor me (St. Mary Student Parish, Ann Arbor). So I'm very...
Appreciating Newman
Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ, discusses Blessed John Henry Newman's insights into conscience, an educated laity, reason, and the importance of our ordinary experience in...
A Story Told by an Olive
The story of St. Ignatius has been told many times, usually with great solemnity as befitting one of the church's great saints. Here's a different...
The Rooms of St. Ignatius
Here is a wonderful virtual tour of the rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome. He lived and worked in these rooms for almost 20...
Spitzer vs. Hawking
The physicist Stephen Hawking has published a new book, The Grand Design, in which he confidently asserts that the universe created itself--no gods required,...
Just for Laughs
Inspired Catholic hilarity from Stephen Colbert. (H/T to Bert Ghezzi.)
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Best Ignatian Songs: Wonder
A friend of mine, whose son was born with Down Syndrome, turned me on to Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder." I think it's a song...
Best Ignatian Songs: I Got a Name
John Predmore, SJ, says that Jim Croce's classic ballad "I Got a Name" "best reflects the events in my life that have led me...
"You Always Called Me Sonny."
I love the movie "The Apostle." It shows people of faith as real people without airs and pretense, and it shows how God...