“It’s important to amplify women’s voices in Jesuit education, and so that’s why the program, I think, philosophically exists.”
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Posted inMusic
A Jesuit music ministry travels from Hiroshima to Rome to sing for peace
For this Japanese choir, to sing at this memorial for St. Ignatius Loyola was to bring their own prayers for peace as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Posted inPodcasts
Martin Scorsese on imaginative prayer and being a Catholic filmmaker
You don’t have to be a world-famous filmmaker to get something out of imaginative prayer.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Celebrating the feast of St. Ignatius in the shadow of war in Gaza
In these dark times, surrounded by death and destruction in Gaza, we hear the command in the first reading, “Choose life.” What are the ways we can do this in a world that seems to have gone mad?
Posted inDispatches
America Media begins new initiatives with $5 million Lilly Endowment grant
Kerry Weber: “The Lilly grant is going to give us the opportunity to tell our stories in a more in-depth way and tell new stories that we may not have had the resources to tell otherwise.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
From high-brow classics to beach reads: 100 years of book recommendations from America magazine
The editors of ‘America’ have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged better than others.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
America magazine’s friend and role model: Remembering Brother Frank Turnbull, S.J.
Frank Turnbull, S.J., a longtime editor at ‘America’ who died earlier this week, is remembered as a humble, quiet and yet forceful presence to those who knew him during his 85 years of life.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A Jesuit guide to aging and retirement
You’ve got a 401K. But do you have a spiritual retirement plan?
Posted inFaith, News
The tireless Jesuit keeping Spain’s St. Ignatius pilgrimage alive
For 13 years, Josep Lluís Iriberri, S.J. has guided pilgrims along the same trail St. Ignatius walked over 500 years ago.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My two vocations: priest and poet
My writing during these past five years is filled with memories of my long journey with God over a lifetime; but very significantly, it is the expression of my prayer at this later time of my life.