James Fisher, a professor of history at Fordham, has just published On the Irish Waterfront, the story of the New York/New Jersey waterfront, which...

Best Ignatian Songs: Gabriel's Oboe

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

One of my favorite movies is The Mission, a film inspired by the Jesuit missions in South America in the eighteenth century. One of...

Back to School at Cristo Rey

Education Jim Manney

This week classes start at 22 US high schools that are part of the Cristo Rey network, an innovative and highly successful model for...

Ignatian Contemplation

Ignatian Prayer Jim Manney

Prayer using the imagination is a pillar of the Ignatian spiritual tradition. In its most common form, you take a passage from scripture, usually one of...

Best Ignatian Songs: For Unto Us a Child Is Born

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

Christ is at the center of Ignatian spirituality. Much of the Spiritual Exercises consists of meditations on the gospel accounts of the life...

The Best Ignatian Songs: The Palm of Your Hand

Ignatian Songs Jim Manney

"We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or a short one," writes...

The List 5.18.09: The Art of the Irish Tin Whistle

Videos Jim Manney

The List is a weekly feature highlighting something remarkable, offbeat, or otherwise noteworthy from the world of Ignatian spirituality.I'm not surprised to run into...

The List 5.11.09: Jesuit Jokes

Videos Jim Manney

The List is a weekly feature highlighting something remarkable, offbeat, or otherwise noteworthy from the world of Ignatian spirituality."A Franciscan, a Dominican, and a...