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A Belatedly Grateful Leper

Loretta Pehanich

This story is inspired by Luke 17:11–19, the cleansing of ten lepers, and illustrates two aspects of Ignatian spirituality: imaginative prayer and gratitude. We’re camped...

31 Days with St. Ignatius Begins

dotMagis Editor

Today is July 1, which means we begin our annual celebration of Ignatian spirituality, 31 Days with St. Ignatius. Every day we’ll highlight an...

Doodling and Creating Better Ideas

dotMagis Editor

Marquette University shares the inspiring story of a cancer survivor, stroke survivor, university student, and doodler through his own words in “My Doodling Journey.”...

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

dotMagis Editor

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...

Jesuits in Haiti

dotMagis Editor

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

dotMagis Editor

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

dotMagis Editor

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

dotMagis Editor

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...