Mount Manresa Jesuit retreat house on Staten Island will close next June, a casualty of strained budgets and the enormous expense of maintaining large old buildings.  This piece in Catholic New York focuses on the ways the New York...

Spiritual director Teresa Blythe has a couple of interesting articles about discernment on Patheos.  One is a step-by-step guide to discernment based on Ignatian principles.  The other is a fascinating look at how the Quakers do group discernment. We also...

The Review for Religious ceased publication in January, 2012, but this venerable journal lives on, perhaps forever, at a digital archive that has just gone online. The Review was published quarterly for 70 years by the Jesuits of the...

To mark St. Ignatius's feast day, I thought I would tell one of my favorite stories about him. In 1552, Pope Julius III announced plans to make another Jesuit a cardinal. Ignatius detested the idea; Jesuits were committed to poverty,...

Get in on the fun before our week of celebration ends tomorrow with St. Ignatius's feast day.  Check out the goings on at Find Your Inner Iggy.  And above all get your free eBook edition of  Just Call Me...

Etty Hillesum, the young Jewish woman killed at Auschwitz who wrote beautiful diaries of life in Amsterdam, wrote movingly of finding beauty amidst suffering. most of us in the West don't understand the art of suffering and experience a thousand...

This is a guest post by Kate Pope Hodel, Executive Director of the Ignatian Spirituality Center of Kansas City.When someone inquires about the Ignatian Spirituality Center of Kansas City, the first question I usually get is, “Where are you...

My sunflowers are blooming again. I was afraid I would miss them this year with our upcoming move to Texas. For weeks, I gazed at them, urging them to hurry up and begging them to give me one last...

Our week of Ignatian celebration continues with a book giveaway from Loyola Press.  Starting today, Loyola Press is giving away free eBook copies of Margaret Silf's newest title, Just Call Me López: Getting to the Heart of Ignatius Loyola....

This is a week of celebration--the week leading up to St. Ignatius's Feast on July 31--the Ignatian version of Mardi Gras, Fasching, Carnival, Oktoberfest, and Super Bowl Sunday.  It won't be as wild as those festivals--it's Ignatian, after all--but...