This is a report on the work of the African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN), founded 10 years ago, and present in 30 countries.  Michael Czerny, SJ, founder of the network, says it stresses personal contact with victims and the vulnerable: From...

America magazine's latest urban pilgrimage is a visit to sites in New York City associated with Thomas Merton, hosted by Fr. Jim Martin, SJ.  Other New York pilgrimages have visited sites connected to Mother Cabrini and Isaac Hecker, the founder...

In his well-known poem Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley observes something of the transience of all human effort.  Writing about a massive statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which appears in a stretch of desolate desert, he wonders what,...

I've been to Rome twice.  Both trips happened before I was interested in St. Ignatius, so I've never been to the house where he lived and worked for the last 14 years of his life running the Jesuit order...

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini died last week. He was a renowned scripture scholar, former archbishop of Milan, a popular writer, and a rare Jesuit bishop.  In an interview shortly before his death, Martini discussed the need for renewal in...

As I drive around the city, I see advertising signs on businesses that often include changing slogans. Along with the name of the business, it might also include a small bit of wisdom or sage advice. A car wash sign...

Our web team has just released an image and audio presentation on the Spiritual Exercises on IgnatianSpirituality.com.  It's the fourth in our Ignatian Way series. The other three are about Ignatian prayer, finding God in all things, and an overview...

I drive pretty much the same route to work each morning. This can mean mentally shifting into autopilot and getting to work without much thought about the drive. We often do things with narrow vision, in our routine, without...

Moving makes me dig deep. I realized this a few weeks ago as I pulled out of the hotel parking lot on a Sunday morning in Jackson, MS, to begin day two of our move from Georgia to Texas....

The Chinese Jesuit Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi has died after a beautiful witness to life in the face of death, battling cancer for six years.  Gerard O'Connell writes in Vatican Insider: On hearing of his death, Chinese Catholics worldwide prayed...