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...

Yesterday was the first birthday of our sister Ignatian Spiritualty page on Facebook.  There's a large, lively and growing community over there.  It has 6334 fans (as of 11 p.m. EDT last night) and about 100 new fans join...

Today marks the 400th anniversary of the death of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who was the first Westerner in the court of Imperial China.  He is one of my heroes, not only because I am fascinated by the history...

A stirring look at community service work by students at Loyola High School in Los Angeles. (Click here if you can't see the video.)

In the US on Sunday, we will celebrate Mother's Day. I have been thinking of my mother a lot lately, maybe because this is only my second Mother's Day without her.  Her long battle with Alzheimer's had a terrible...

Our Creighton Online Ministries website has many prayers by and for mothers. Click here.  Here is a Mother's Day prayer: I thank you, Creator of us all, for my mother.I thank you that she gave me life and...

How do I know God is speaking to me? It's not easy to tell, and it's hard to explain to others when it happens. I suppose that's the question at the heart of spiritual direction and praying the...