Nathan O’Halloran, SJ on Ignatius at the movies. A new online Jesuit magazine, New Jesuit Review. Robert Lauder tackles life’s big question. Michelle Francl-Donnay on rough prayer. Michael Magree, SJ on irony. David Nantais rocks with Bruce Springsteen. Share or bookmark this post:
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Today we welcome another blogger to dotMagis. He is Ed Peck. Ed is the founding executive director of the Ignatian Colleagues Program. He joins Maureen Waldron, Tim Muldoon, and me as regular dotMagis bloggers. Ed will publish his first post tomorrow. Ignatian Colleagues is joint venture of 24 Jesuit colleges and universities that trains administrators [...]
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The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has announced that Mary Ward (1585-1645), the English woman who founded an order modeled directly after the Jesuits, will be declared Venerable. See the CathAsia news story here. See the bio of Mary at the website of the order she founded, the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, [...]
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I have been doing all the blogging at dotMagis since we launched the site in April. Now I have some company. Our new blogger is Tim Muldoon, a writer and theologian who works in the Office of Ministry and Mission at Boston College and teaches in the Honors Program. Tim’s first post is immediately below [...]
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Not “fitting in” is an uncomfortable feeling–and a common one. Sometimes it’s a self-inflicted condition, but sometimes the feeling of longing for a home that hasn’t arrived yet is the truth of our state. Blogger Lisa Kelly thinks that not fitting is often a byproduct of the Ignatian outlook, and of the work that this [...]
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Say You’re One of Them, a short story collection by Uwem Akpan, SJ, a Nigerian Jesuit, is Oprah Winfrey’s latest pick for her book club. It’s the first time Oprah has chosen a book of short stories (and Fr. Akpan is her first Jesuit author). Each of the book’s five stories are set in a [...]
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People who work as administrators grumble about it all the time. “Another meeting.” “Another performance review.” “Another crisis.” Yet administration is on St. Paul’s list of spiritual gifts in 1 Corinthians 12. Ann Garrido, an academic administrator in St. Louis, asks, “Why not reconceive administration as a potential spiritual pathway by which good people can [...]
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Thanks to reader Bill Daugherty for our first Jesuit joke in verse form. Share or bookmark this post:
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I love the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He’s difficult. One critic says that a sign of excellence in a poet is the number of different ways you can read his work. By that measure, Hopkins is a great poet. But Hopkins is worth the effort it takes to read and understand him. Paul Mariani, [...]
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He died in 1984, after all. But here it is. The great Jesuit theologian has 50 friends. I sent a friend request. Teilhard de Chardin has a Facebook page too, but, sadly, Teilhard has no friends. Or at least he didn’t when I wrote this. I sent him a friend request too. But I haven’t [...]
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