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The Rooms of St. Ignatius

Jim Manney

Here is a wonderful virtual tour of the rooms of St. Ignatius in Rome. He lived and worked in these rooms for almost 20...

How to Talk to People

Jim Manney

Advice from Ignatius, writing to Jesuits participating in the Council of Trent: Be prudent. "When speaking in any conversation, do not think you...

The What-How-Why of Prayer

Jim Manney

Over the last few months we've added much material to the Ignatian Prayer section of Ignatian Spirituality.com. There's a new page called "The What-How-Why...

How to Live without Fear

Jim Manney

William Barry, SJ, one of my favorite spiritual writers, draws on the poetry of Franz Wright and the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous in...

Ignatian Education

Tim Muldoon

Yesterday was the first day of classes at Boston College. I love this time of year, and I love teaching at a Jesuit school...

“I was a stranger”

Meredith Gould

I should probably cut myself a break. After all, it has only been six weeks since I moved to Baltimore (aka Charm City and...

Using the Examen to Change

Jim Manney

Aaron Pidel, SJ, thinks that this observation in a Times article on self-monitoring is right on the mark. When we try to change we simply...

Spitzer vs. Hawking

Jim Manney

The physicist Stephen Hawking has published a new book, The Grand Design, in which he confidently asserts that the universe created itself--no gods required,...

His Life Was Good but His Thinking Was Bad

Jim Manney

One of my favorite characters in fiction is Konstantin Dmitrich Levin in Leo Tolstoy's great novel Anna Karenina. Levin is an intelligent young aristocrat with...