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Kevin O’Brien, SJ, on Discernment in the Jesuit Tradition

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Kevin O’Brien, SJ, presented an hour-long webinar on “Discernment in the Jesuit Tradition” for Georgetown University Alumni Career Services. The information is valuable for...

Is God at Work?

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How are we to interpret the alternately serendipitous and disappointing, unexpected and unpredictable, courses of our lives? What is happening when death or financial...

Jesuits in Haiti

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The Jesuits have opened a new novitiate in Haiti, a country that had outlawed Jesuits as recently as the 1980s. Ministry work is with...

We Can Be More Fully Ourselves

Andy Otto

When I was a Jesuit, people often told me I had a higher calling. It seems common language for those who’ve felt called to...

Encyclical Takeaways

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The release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, was accompanied by a stream of analysis...

The Sin of Ingratitude

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A question recently came to the editor’s desk about the fact that St. Ignatius believed ingratitude to be “the cause, beginning, and origin of...

Andy Otto on the Fifth Week

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The Spiritual Exercises are divided into four phases, called “weeks.” After the retreat experience is over, however, we face “the Fifth Week”—the rest of...