Jim's Books
Poetry
Thanksgiving
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: What a Wonderful World
I'll bet that you already know and love this week's Ignatian song, but tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. There's no better time to listen to Louis Armstrong sing "What a...
People
Mary Karr’s Conversion
The poet Mary Karr has just published a new book, Lit, in which she talks about her conversion to Catholicism as well her struggle with alcoholism. She mentions in...
Discernment
Congressman Cao's Discernment
Anh "Joseph" Cao got a lot of attention last December when he became the first Vietnamese-American to be elected to Congress. He was in the news again recently when...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Posada
Every year some 100,000 undocumented minors are picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol as they try to enter the United States. Posada is a 55-minute documentary film that...
Ignatian Songs
Best Ignatian Songs: I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
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...