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Why Pray?

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The speaker in this brief video makes several key points about why we pray. You might also enjoy the article “Why Do We Pray?” by...

Toward a Different Kind of World with Pope Francis

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Time magazine is running an exclusive excerpt from Elisabetta Piqué’s new biography of Pope Francis: Life and Revolution. Read it here.Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio...

Thoughts about the Imagination and Narrative

Marina Berzins McCoy

Storytelling is crucial to how we as human beings make meaning of our lives. Ricoeur observed that while life is simply lived, we attempt...

St. John de Brébeuf’s Open Heart

Cara Callbeck

This month we remember a Jesuit priest and martyr who left the relative comforts of 17th-century France to become a missionary to the Huron...

Rocking Babies in Church

Maureen McCann Waldron

My husband and I were at Mass on Saturday night and during the opening hymn, I noticed the woman in the pew ahead of...

What Makes You Happy?

dotMagis Editor

Here’s a fun initiative. Loyola University Maryland’s campus ministry is highlighting clips of people sharing what makes them happy. In this video, campus ministry...

Surprises on the Ignatian Pilgrimage

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The Camino Ignaciano is a pilgrimage that traces the route St. Ignatius Loyola walked after his conversion in 1522. We’ve talked about it a...

Intentional Acts of Kindness

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While there’s nothing wrong with “random acts of kindness,” what if we were more intentional about those acts? Cultivating a habit of gratitude is the...