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Celebrating Ignatius

Jim Manney

It's July, the month of high summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the month of St. Ignatius Loyola, whose spiritual ideas we celebrate here...

Karate and Ignatian Spirituality

Tim Muldoon

I recently took my girls to the drive-in to see the remake of a film I enjoyed when I was younger--The Karate Kid. Now,...

Getting Unplugged

Maureen McCann Waldron

I was struck by the post here last week “Solitude in a World of iPad Apps” about an article by Fr. Jim Martin,...

Slumps and Winning Streaks

Jim Manney

Psychologists study a phenomenon called "disregard of regression toward the mean." This is our tendency to expect that extreme performance will continue. ...

A Postmodern Spirituality

Jim Manney

Tim Muldoon argues that Ignatian spirituality speaks to the postmodern sensibility because it prizes imagination and experience rather than doctrine and analysis: It is based...

Solitude in a World of iPad Apps

Jim Manney

I assume that everyone reading this is immersed in the "always on" world of the web, blogs, iPods, email, smart phones, iPads, and other...

A Lector’s Margin Notes

Meredith Gould

I probably can't describe how I know if and when I'm hearing from the Almighty without sounding odd. Let's just say I've (pretty much)...

Links for the Weekend

Jim Manney

Jim Martin, SJ, on sexual abuse and the Sacred Heart. How the St. Louis Jesuits changed liturgical music. (“One person credits them with wrecking the...

Love Does What it Can

Vinita Hampton Wright

There's an ongoing argument in my marriage. My husband complains about something, and then I complain about his complaining. This is no small conflict....