I teach residents from the most prestigious medical schools around the country. It is profoundly unsettling to me that they have not been prepared to think about the “big questions” in medicine.

I have Ignatius and Benedict to thank for guiding me into a regular rhythm of noticing God in daily life and capturing this truth into words that steer me into saying yes and no to the right things.

My belief in the sanctity of human life was supported by my own struggle to accept myself as a gay person.

‘The Bible was not written for a generic humanity, but for us, for me, for you’

Read an excerpt from Fr. James Martin’s new book on prayer

Dr. King and St. Ignatius found themselves needing to turn inward to feel the graces that would inspire their hearts and their pens to share how God was working through them in moments of personal strife.