Jim's Books
Jesuit History
On the Camino
This past week or so I've been following a group of Australian pilgrims as they walk the Ignatian Camino, a 340-mile pilgrimage route in northeastern Spain that starts in...
Retreats
Online Exercises Start this Week
Most people who make the Spiritual Exercises these days do them over the course of six or seven months. This "retreat in daily life" involves daily prayer and reflection...
Jesuit Saints
St. Robert Bellarmine
Today is the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, SJ (1542-1621). He was a formidable intellectual--a Doctor of the Church and one of the most important leaders of the Catholic...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: Holy Darkness
Reader Nancy Walton-House nominates this week's Best Ignatian Song. It's a lovely piece: “Holy Darkness" by Dan Schutte, one of the St. Louis Jesuits. Nancy writes:
This song is about...
People
Pope Francis Back in the Pulpit
After a summer break, Pope Francis has resumed his practice of saying Mass and preaching each morning at his residence in the Vatican. His homilies are terrific. He speaks...
Discernment
Winding Down
Edmund Lo, SJ, tells a good story about monitoring one's inner states of consolation and desolation, as Ignatius did when he was recovering from his wounds:
My invitation to you...