The evangelical blogger John Mark Hicks makes an excellent point about the examen: I think it is particularly important for men since it focuses on emotion and feeling which are the windows to our souls but which windows we males...

If you would like to make a retreat, but can't get away for a weekend at a Jesuit retreat house, take a look at the online retreats offered by the team at Creighton Online Ministries.  You can choose from...

We've been very serious on dotMagis this week. Let's lighten up on Friday. Kick back, relax, and listen to the greatest song by the greatest singer of all. (Click here if you can't see the video.)

Here's where I saw God yesterday. How about you?

Jesuits educated me (St. Peter's College), they employ me (Loyola Press), and they pastor me (St. Mary Student Parish, Ann Arbor).  So I'm very interested in how the Jesuits see themselves these days.   Here are a couple of...

Fifteen years ago, Jane Knuth wandered into the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store in Kalamazoo, Michigan, looking to buy a rosary for her daughter's First Communion. She became a volunteer. She liked the people who worked there. Even...

Though I have not yet seen the exhibit "The Wanderer," by Enrique Martínez Celaya, (at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York) I am fascinated by its description: The exhibition explores Martínez Celaya's immersion in a Western literary...

“Imagine God thinking about you. What do you assume God feels when you come to mind?” That question begins David Benner's Surrender to Love, which I have been reading recently. In our heads we mostly know what the correct answer...

A misspent youth, getting caught up in riches and all sorts of vanity.  A soldier, seeking the honors that the world tells him are worth pursuing.  A stupid battle, a wound, a convalescence, a conversion.  Christ calling him to...

Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ, discusses Blessed John Henry Newman's insights into conscience, an educated laity, reason, and the importance of our ordinary experience in this video from America magazine. Also read this post about Newman by Tim Muldoon. (Click...