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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....

Praying the Examen with Children

Becky Eldredge

Every year when school starts, I find myself setting goals that I want to work on as a mom and that we want to...

Wisdom Days

Maureen McCann Waldron

Fridays have become Wisdom Days. I will be 60 in a few weeks and after 38 years of working full-time, I asked my boss/friend/work...

Pope Francis Back in the Pulpit

Jim Manney

After a summer break, Pope Francis has resumed his practice of saying Mass and preaching each morning at his residence in the Vatican. His...

Winding Down

Jim Manney

Edmund Lo, SJ, tells a good story about monitoring one's inner states of consolation and desolation, as Ignatius did when he was recovering from...

Conversion and Car Keys

Marina Berzins McCoy

I'm a convert. Sometimes my conversion experience piques the interest of cradle Catholics, who are eager to hear about the idea of choosing a...

The Cold-Call Pope

Jim Manney

Pope Francis likes to call up total strangers out of the blue and chat with them. He did this recently with two teenagers, prompting...

The Suppression of the Jesuits

Jim Manney

If you're interested in Jesuit history, watch the below videos. They examine the Suppression of the Jesuits, one of the most astonishing and mysterious...