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Wise Thoughts for the Graduate—and for the Rest of Us Too

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In this graduation season, we share some wise and hopeful words from the late Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart, in I Wasn’t Dead When I Wrote This:...

Discernment Is a Choice of Courage

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In a recent address to seminarians, Pope Francis highlighted three aspects of Ignatian style: friendship with the Lord, discernment, and cultivating the magis, or...

When to Sing Alleluia

Michelle Francl-Donnay

“From holy Easter until Pentecost without interruption let ‘Alleluia’ be said both in the Psalms and in the responsories.” —from The Rule of St....

What Is an Unhealthy Attachment?

Vinita Hampton Wright

People who are familiar with St. Ignatius, the Spiritual Exercises, or Jesuit spirituality in general will sometimes use the term unhealthy attachment. What is...

What Happened in the Tomb?

Loretta Pehanich

Did you ever wonder what exactly happened in the tomb after Jesus was buried? The mystery of Jesus fully human and fully divine tangles...

How to Beat the Fear of Failure

Vinita Hampton Wright

Choose to do what you consider important to do. Do that important thing, and keep doing it. Don’t give up on what is important. Look at the...

Appreciating Emmaus

dotMagis Editor

There’s much to appreciate in the story of the disciples on the way to Emmaus, says Michael Sparough, SJ. For one: It’s in looking back...

World Union of Jesuit Alumni Congress

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John Carroll University, in Cleveland, Ohio, will host the 2017 World Union of Jesuit Alumni (WUJA) Congress this summer. The event brings together Jesuit...