Many people want to know, and it’s not an easy question to answer. Here are some things that help. The late David Fleming, SJ, wrote an excellent small book by that title. We have a whole section of this website devoted to it. I like this “top ten” list by Paul Campbell, SJ. Jim Martin, [...]
The New England Jesuits have published an excellent podcast on using the Examen in Advent. This is the second of four weekly Advent podcasts with an Ignatian flavor. Go here for details. Don’t forget the the daily Advent meditations that rotate through dotMagis and four other blogs sponsored by Loyola Press. Today’s meditation is by Paul [...]
Paul Campbell, SJ, talks about his personal prayer practices. (“The most important thing I do is to see a spiritual director.”) 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 liturgy and the next person credits them with saving [...]
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 [...]
At his People for Others blog, 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 the Spanish Inquisition. This got me thinking about the personalities of saints. There aren’t many “fun” facts about Ignatius because [...]