Until I dive right into a situation, I will never understand how to love the people who live there. As a writer, I could talk poetically about love and compose moving essays on love. But unless I walk into the...

Here is a prayer for the beginning of the work week. It's a reworking of the poem "Prophets of a Future Not Our Own," by Lisa Kelly at the Ignatian Life blog . She did it, she says, "to remind myself...

The Wall Street Journal admires the Cristo Rey network of schools. A blog you should check out: Days of Deepening Friendship.  They're discussing Tim Muldoon's book, Longing to Love over there. What happens when Jesuit colleges play each other in basketball. The...

The Jesuits are organizing a pilgrimage and community experiences in Spain and Portugal next summer in the weeks leading up to World Youth Day in Madrid, August 16-21.  The project is called Magis 2011, and its very Ignatian motto...

The notion that the spiritual life is a journey is so common that it's a platitude. I've worked for years in Catholic publishing. I've seen dozens of book covers depicting paths: rugged paths in the forest, manicured paths in lovely...

During this week of Pentecost I have been thinking about the Church as an institution, a community launched by Christ and gifted with the Holy Spirit. Our beginning, we profess, is through God's own activity, and our continuing life is...

I love the movie "The Apostle." It shows people of faith as real people without airs and pretense, and it shows how God can use a very flawed man to do good things. In that it gives me...

A while ago I decided to stop trying to make big changes.  They were too hard.  I thought I'd concentrate on making small changes, but much of the time this was even harder. The big changes were things like writing...

Jack McLain, SJ, on zombies (“the faceless, unsexy, plodders of the horror genre"). Nathan O'Halloran, SJ, reads 1 Samuel 15:3 and asks, "Does God approve genocide?" Myles Sheehan, SJ, MD, on the medical and ethical aspects of living longer lives. A short...

A psychologist named William van Ornum will be writing regularly on America Magazine's "In All Things" blog about the intersection of Christian faith and psychology.  In his initial post he writes that one common denominator is Ignatius's exhortation to...