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Just Because It’s Friday

We've been very serious on dotMagis this week. Let's lighten up on Friday. Kick back, relax, and listen to the greatest song...

What Jesuits Are Like

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...

Thrift Store Saints

Fifteen years ago, Jane Knuth wandered into the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store in Kalamazoo, Michigan, looking to buy a rosary for her...

Wandering

Though I have not yet seen the exhibit "The Wanderer," by Enrique Martínez Celaya, (at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York) I...

What Does God Think of You?

“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...

Imitatio sancti

A misspent youth, getting caught up in riches and all sorts of vanity.  A soldier, seeking the honors that the world tells him are...

Appreciating Newman

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...

The Pope and the Elderly

During his recent trip to the UK, Pope Benedict visited  a Catholic nursing home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.  The 83-year-old...

A Judge for the Spiritual Exercises

The Spiritual Exercises were originally given in a month-long retreat of about 30 days. Today, the most common way to make the Exercises is...

A Story Told by an Olive

The story of St. Ignatius has been told many times, usually with great solemnity as befitting one of the church's great saints. Here's a different...

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