There were many tributes to St. Ignatius on his feast day a couple of weeks ago. Here is one of the best. The writer is Matt Emerson, a teacher at Xavier College Preparatory in Palm Desert, California: Ignatius's example, like the...

Yesterday we noted a Jesuit connection to Olympic swimming.  Today we feature Jesuit contributions to particle physics. The Society of Jesus has a wide reach indeed. Writing on the British Jesuit site ThinkingFaith.org, Andrew Pinsent takes a stab at explaining what...

Are you troubled by division in the church?  Frustrated by the church you love?  Pray this prayer along with our friend Jim Martin SJ.  (Click here to watch it on YouTube.)

From the Spiritual Exercises:The one who explains to another the method and order of meditating or contemplating should narrate exactly the facts of the contemplation or meditation.  Let him adhere to the points, and add only a short or...

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...