Jim's Books
Poetry
John O’Donohue on Noticing
I hadn't known about the priest-poet John O'Donohue until I read this post by Michelle Francl-Donnay. The poem "A Blessing for One Who is Exhausted" might have been inspired...
People
The Case for Dorothy Day
At first the idea of Dorothy Day being proclaimed a saint seemed unlikely to say the least. She was a leftist, a pacifist, a critic of bishops, a gadfly...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Fr. Nicolás on Secularization
Fr. Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, Jesuit superior general, spent most of his career in Japan. Here he contrasts aggressive secularism in the west with a secularism in Japan that is...
Poetry
i thank you God
e.e. cummings' poem "i thank You God for most this amazing day" is a lyric of thanksgiving. Read it here. Here it is read by Cummings himself. (Click here if you...
Ignatian Voices
A Litany of Gifts
I love Thanksgiving. It's less hectic than Christmas, and it's mainly about enjoying family and friends (food too, of course). A few years ago, the late John Kavanaugh, SJ,...
Jesuit History
UCA Martyrs Anniversary
Last Friday was the 23rd anniversary of the deaths of the UCA martyrs--six Jesuits, their cook and her daughter who were murdered at the University of Central America in...