IGNATIUS RISING: The Life of John Kennedy Toole. By René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy. Louisiana State University, $24.95. IF you were the mother of a gifted and sensitive son, if you filled ...

Editor's Note: This is excerpted from The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola (Anamchara Books, 2021). Used with permission. When religious historians tell ...

Bishop John O. Barres of Rockville Centre, N.Y., uses incense while celebrating the chrism Mass at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre March 30, 2021. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.) Listen ...

The family and friends of the young Inigo would not have predicted he would become one of the most influential saints in the history of Christianity. Yet that is who St. Ignatius Loyola became. It was ...

Anthony explores the cannonball moment(s) of our world as opportunities for conversion toward service for others. In contemplating the journey of Ignatius' life, we are called to consider how his ...

In 1522 Ignatius became a pilgrim, giving away all his clothes and possessions to the poor and devoting himself to prayer and contemplation. A 17th-century statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola by Spanish ...

"Getting it wrong" is human – it was part of St. Ignatius' life, and it's part of ours. The first time I really encountered Ignatius Loyola’s story was as first-year student in an Ignatian ...

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I am a 40-something mom of teenagers in modern America—possibly the furthest thing from a father of Western monasticism or a Renaissance-era Spanish theologian. Yet Sts. Benedict of Nursia and ...

Children ride in the popemobile with Pope Francis as he greets the crowd during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 7, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Below is the text of ...

A movie in which the sword-fighting hero dallies with the ladies and acquires great power before receiving a grave battle wound and new lease on life could only be the stuff of a modern-day ...