Tim's Books
Ignatian Prayer
Pope Francis on Prayer
America Magazine, along with La Civiltà Cattolica and other Jesuit publications around the world, has published an interview with Pope Francis, well worth the read. Among other things, the pope...
Spirituality
Journeying Is an Art
Speaking to students of Jesuit schools, Pope Francis responded to a student who expressed doubts about belief.
“Journeying is an art because, if we're always in a hurry, we get...
Ignatian Voices
I Love This Picture
I love it because you saw something. No: rather, something invited your gaze to linger and see beauty,And you paused long enough to catch this wispBefore it passed like a...
Jesuit Saints
In Praise of Obscurity
In his well-known poem Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley observes something of the transience of all human effort. Writing about a massive statue of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II, which...
People
Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, RIP
The Chinese Jesuit Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-hsi has died after a beautiful witness to life in the face of death, battling cancer for six years. Gerard O'Connell writes in...
Jesuit/Ignatian Ministries
Mobile Ministry
Mount Manresa, a Jesuit retreat center on Staten Island, is closing after a century of retreat ministry. But far from stopping this valuable work, the Jesuits are adapting to...