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.
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Our Ignatian song this week is U2′s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” It’s a song of deep spiritual yearning. You broke the bonds And you loosed the chains Carried the cross Of my shame Oh my shame You know I believe it But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for Every [...]
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“Some people pray, some people play music,” Bruce Springsteen once said, but it’s pretty obvious that Bruce prays with much of the music he makes. He went to St. Rose of Lima Elementary School in Freehold, New Jersey. Catholic imagery often appears in his music. One critic calls him the greatest Catholic poet of our [...]
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“My City of Ruins” became both an elegy of grief and an anthem of hope in the months following the terror attacks on 9/11. It was the final song on Bruce Springsteen’s album “The Rising,” which was released not long after the attacks. The album, and especially “My City of Ruins,” spoke to pain of [...]
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