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Being a Dad

Tim Muldoon

Over the past two weeks I've had the remarkable experience of being a nearly full-time dad. My wife has started a new job and...

Jesuits in Haiti

Jim Manney

Six months after the earthquake, the people of Haiti are still in great need. "It's like the country has collapsed," says Fr. Wismith Lazard,...

Vatican Astronomer

Jim Manney

Jose Funes, SJ, director of the Vatican Observatory, talks to New Scientist about his work and the relationship between religion and science. Is the conflict...

Best Ignatian Songs: Wonder

Jim Manney

A friend of mine, whose son was born with Down Syndrome, turned me on to Natalie Merchant's song "Wonder." I think it's a song...

Celebrating Ignatius

Jim Manney

It's July, the month of high summer (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the month of St. Ignatius Loyola, whose spiritual ideas we celebrate here...

Karate and Ignatian Spirituality

Tim Muldoon

I recently took my girls to the drive-in to see the remake of a film I enjoyed when I was younger--The Karate Kid. Now,...

Getting Unplugged

Maureen McCann Waldron

I was struck by the post here last week “Solitude in a World of iPad Apps” about an article by Fr. Jim Martin,...

Slumps and Winning Streaks

Jim Manney

Psychologists study a phenomenon called "disregard of regression toward the mean." This is our tendency to expect that extreme performance will continue. ...

A Postmodern Spirituality

Jim Manney

Tim Muldoon argues that Ignatian spirituality speaks to the postmodern sensibility because it prizes imagination and experience rather than doctrine and analysis: It is based...