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Pope Benedict XVI has praised the cosmic vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit scientist and philosopher whose work has been out of favor with the Vatican in years past. Speaking about St. Paul's vision that the...

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I've long disliked "positive thinking" advice. I'm not talking about cultivating an optimistic attitude or imagining a good outcome when you go for a job interview. I mean positive thinking of the Oprah variety--the notion that we create our...

Historian John W. O'Malley, SJ, ponders Jesuit worldliness  in a recent article.  He starts with a Jesuit joke, but the "worldliness" of the Jesuits is no joke.  It's real. The decision to operate schools gave the Society a big shove...

Many sports teams at Catholic universities have chaplains.  You can sometimes catch a glimpse of these men at basketball games.  They are the fellows in black in their Roman collars, hovering the background during timeouts.  Did you ever wonder...

America magazine's Books and Culture section looks at Flannery O'Connor and William Paul Young, two writers at opposite ends of the literary quality spectrum. Young, author of the best-selling The Shack, holds up the low-quality end of the scale....

For at least five reasons, says Tim Muldoon of Boston College: it gives  life a clear foundation; it sees God in all things; it shows us how to walk with Christ; it makes sense of suffering; and it hold...

The new Ignatian Spirituality page on Facebook reached a milestone this week when its fan count went over 1000. This morning it's 1109 fans and counting. Take a look, and become a fan if you like what you...

At his People for Others blog (now no longer online), my friend Paul Campbell has trouble coming up with “five fun facts” about Ignatius Loyola. One of them is the fact that Ignatius was hauled up several times before...