This is a guest post.One of my greatest joys is leading college students on international service-immersion trips. I've traveled with 80 students to Nicaragua over the past seven years. I love seeing students' lives transformed while walking with our...

The jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, who died yesterday, was intensely interested in spiritual things.  He said once that “something should be done musically to strengthen man's knowledge of God."  He became a Catholic in 1980 shortly after composing...

Becky Eldredge offers some advice for how to find a spiritual director.

It's early December, winter, cold mornings and barren landscapes and leaden skies. It's the time of Advent--the season of longing for the light of Christ to break into our world. Let's listen to the greatest Advent hymn, "O Come O...

Welcome to Advent! In this seasonal reflection, Joe Paprocki shares what Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have to do with Advent and gratitude. Paprocki is the National Consultant for Faith Formation at Loyola Press and author of books including 7...

Catherine Brunell discusses the Ignatian themes in her book, Becoming Catholic, Again, with Tim Muldoon. Brunell will be leading an Advent retreat on the Loyola Press Facebook page starting on Monday. And Vinita Hampton Wright will be leading a retreat...

I hadn't known about the priest-poet John O'Donohue until I read this post by Michelle Francl-Donnay.  The poem "A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted" might have been inspired by the Examen. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all...

At first the idea of Dorothy Day being proclaimed a saint seemed unlikely to say the least. She was a leftist, a pacifist, a critic of bishops, a gadfly to the powerful, a woman who had had an abortion....

Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, Jesuit superior general, spent most of his career in Japan.  Here he contrasts aggressive secularism in the west with a secularism in Japan that is is respectful of religion.  (Click here to watch the video...

This Advent, enjoy our upcoming video reflection series. Each Sunday, starting December 2, 2012, we'll post a video reflection to help you in your spiritual journey. Reflections will be by Joe Paprocki, Tim Muldoon, Vinita Hampton Wright, and Becky...