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Reasons to Stay Catholic

Jim Manney

At the America magazine blog, Valerie Schultz lists the top ten reasons to stay Catholic. A couple are whimsical (#5: We put on an...

Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address

Jim Manney

Conan O'Brien gave a wonderful commencement address last month at Dartmouth College. He's very funny for the first 17 minutes or so. ...

Sports News: Jesuits Take Clericus Cup

Jim Manney

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...

Asking God for a Sunny Day

Jim Manney

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...

The Examen and Other Prayers

Jim Manney

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...

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Jim Manney

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...

Young Adult Retreats

Jim Manney

A team of young Jesuits will be barnstorming up and down the East Coast this summer giving weekend retreats for young adults. The team...

It’s a Mitzvah

Meredith Gould

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...

Preparing to Pray

Jim Manney

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...