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Preparing to Pray

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...

Today’s News . . .

Many years ago, I went on a news fast.  To be more precise, I stopped reading, watching or listening to any and all news...

How to Give Retreats

If you give retreats, or know someone who does, think about going to an intensive workshop on preaching the Ignatian weekend retreat to be...

Prettiest Girl in Town

A while ago I sent this as my first blog posting for dotMagis.  Today there is an update. In December of 2009, I wrote:I...

Becoming a Priest

Video cameras are following Radmar Jao as he prepares to be ordained a priest next month.  Jao is the subject of a video series...

A Scholar’s Faith

The Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner was once asked in a radio interview why some people didn't experience God.  His response: 'I don't believe you;...

Just Havin’ Some Fun

Steve Martin and friends sing the atheist song. (If you can't see the video, click here.)

More Muldoon

dotMagis blogger Tim Muldoon has been writing an excellent weekly column at the website Patheos, which is devoted to "a global dialogue about religion...

Praying from the Heart

Exaggeration or reality? There's not a person of faith--dead or alive--who hasn't at some point trudged through a desert landscape of dusty dry and...

There Are Many Ways to Observe Lent

Iowa newspaper editor and brewer J. Wilson ended a 46-day Lenten fast during which  drank only beer and ate no solid food.  Wilson, a...

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