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 ...

Ignatius of Loyola was born in 1491 into an important and noble Basque family in northern Spain. In his youth he was a swaggering “caballero” and a solider in the service of King Ferdinand of Spain.

Besides being the founder of one of the largest religious orders in the world and the author of the “Spiritual Exercises,” St. Ignatius of Loyola is also the patron saint of soldiers. Here’s how this ...

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 ...

On July 31, when the Church marks the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, his “discernment” is seen as key to resolving many of today’s conflicts. When a young man joined the Jesuits years ago — or a ...

Ad majorem Dei gloriam is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus. Shown above, a 10-foot bronze sculpture on the Boston College campus portrays St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, as a ...

St. Francis Xavier, St. Ignatius of Loyola and Blessed Peter Faber are shown in an icon. Pope Francis is expected to issue a decree declaring one of his favorite Jesuits, Blessed Peter Faber, a saint.

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 ...

Ad majorem Dei gloriam is the Latin motto of the Society of Jesus. Shown above, a 10-foot bronze sculpture on the Boston College campus portrays St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order, as a ...