Here is a sublime Holy Week meditation by the Ignatian Schola, a vocal ensemble in Manhattan composed of Jesuits and lay colleagues. O bone Jesu miserere nobis quia tu creasti nos tu redemisti nos sanguine tuo praetiosissimoO good Jesus Have mercy upon us For you created...

Sin isn't the human condition; it's the explanation for the human condition. Without knowledge of sin, life makes no sense at all. I first got a glimmer of this when I was a sophomore in high school. The occasion was...

When we consider the Incarnation we tend to think about Christmas and the 33 years that followed. But in the Ignatian tradition—indeed, in the Christian understanding—incarnation is continuing and ongoing. Jesus, after his Ascension, did not disappear forever more....

This is a guest post by Michelle Francl-Donnay for Week Seven of An Ignatian Prayer Adventure. If I had a Latin motto posted over my office door it might be Conplecte abyssum—embrace chaos, or more literally, entwine yourself into the...

This post is a part of the Lenten series “From Ashes to Glory.” The Word While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take; this is my...

This post is a part of the Lenten series “From Ashes to Glory.” The prayer of the Examen rests on a profound and perilous belief: the Father's will is greater than my own. I accept the reality that His will, not...

Jesus, as we enter Holy Week, I am moved with emotion that you were able to put one foot in front of the other as you entered the streets of Jerusalem. You knew that Jerusalem was a city that...

We have a Jesuit pope. Is this the year for a Jesuit NCAA basketball champion? It hasn't happened since 1977, when Al McGuire's Marquette team took the title. But this year's tournament has the strongest lineup of Jesuit schools in...

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Like you, I've been reading a lot of commentary about Pope Francis in the past week.  I thought I'd pass along four pieces that seem especially enlightening.  All four concern themselves with the question that I'm most interested in:...