Conan O'Brien gave a wonderful commencement address last month at Dartmouth College. He's very funny for the first 17 minutes or so. Then he turns serious. "There are few things in life more liberating than having...

In America, Jesuit schools are famous for their basketball teams.  In Europe, it's soccer.  In Rome this week the Jesuit-run Pontifical Gregorian University defeated the Dominicans of the Angelicum 3-1 to win the Clericus Cup, the trophy in a...

Armand Nigro, SJ, urges us to pray for what we want: When we beg God for sunny weather, or pray that our bursitis will go away, or pray for something more holy or important such as international peace and justice...

During Lent we published six audio-visual guided Examens that introduce the Ignatian Examen prayer.  These were very popular, and they now have a permanent home here on this site.  There's a whole page on the Examen on IgnatianSpirituality.com.  For...

Loyola Productions has made a DVD featuring Fr. Jim Martin, SJ, talking about twelve of his favorite saints.  It's based, of course, Jim's best-selling book My Life with the Saints.  Here's the segment on St. Thérèse of Lisieux. ...

A team of young Jesuits will be barnstorming up and down the East Coast this summer giving weekend retreats for young adults.  The team is called the Jesuit Mission Band and the retreats are called Hearts on Fire.  They...

Seems to me the word "mitzvah" is being used a lot these days. Usually it shows up in exclamations: "It's a mitzvah." Maybe I'm noticing this because the recent preponderance of unnaturally natural disasters has highlighted people reaching out to...

Michelle Francl-Donnay on getting ready to pray: In his “Spiritual Exercises,” St. Ignatius of Loyola recommends that we come to the threshold of prayer — literally, stop a few steps before the place where you will pray —...

Many years ago, I went on a news fast.  To be more precise, I stopped reading, watching or listening to any and all news from 1988 through 1993-ish. Can't say I missed finding out about wars, famines, and predictable ...

If you give retreats, or know someone who does, think about going to an intensive workshop on preaching the Ignatian weekend retreat to be held July 8-17 at Montserrat Retreat House in Dallas.  The faculty for the week is...