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A Recipe for Dealing with Burnout

Becky Eldredge

When my son was ten months old, I found myself at a point of ministry burnout. The adjustment to motherhood—combined with working on my...

Storytime

Jim Manney

The third installment of Tim and Sue Muldoon's series on "Why Children Need Ignatian Spirituality" is about the power of stories. Ignatius wanted people...

“Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?”

Jim Manney

“Who is Jorge Mario Bergoglio?” the interviewer asked. “I am a sinner,” the pope replied. “It is not a figure of speech, a literary...

Pope Francis on Prayer

Tim Muldoon

America Magazine, along with La CiviltÃ Cattolica and other Jesuit publications around the world, has published an interview with Pope Francis, well worth the...

On the Camino

Jim Manney

This past week or so I've been following a group of Australian pilgrims as they walk the Ignatian Camino, a 340-mile pilgrimage route in...

Online Exercises Start this Week

Jim Manney

Most people who make the Spiritual Exercises these days do them over the course of six or seven months. This "retreat in daily life"...

St. Robert Bellarmine

Jim Manney

Today is the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ (1542-1621). He was a formidable intellectual--a Doctor of the Church and one of the most...

Spiritual Conversation

Andy Otto

The most basic thing human beings do together is communicate. Language helps form and maintain relationships. Jesus, in the scriptures, had deep conversations with...

Best Ignatian Songs: Holy Darkness

Jim Manney

Reader Nancy Walton-House nominates this week's Best Ignatian Song. It's a lovely piece: “Holy Darkness" by Dan Schutte, one of the St. Louis Jesuits....