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 [...]
Lisa Kelly on cleaning the slate. Aaron Pidel, SJ, on so-called progress in human knowledge (“The most recently founded fields of study. . . often show a peculiar and youthful zeal for proving the obvious.”) Fr. Robert Barron on the sci-fi movie “District 9.” (“It explores, with great perceptiveness, a problem that has preoccupied modern philosophers from Hegel [...]
One of the central exercises in the Spiritual Exercises is the meditation on “three types of people.” It invites us to give a long, searching look at how free we really are. It’s designed to help us achieve greater freedom by detaching ourselves from desires that entangle us. Lisa Kelly, an Ignatian Associate and blogger, [...]