In February 2020, my brother Jesuits and I returned home to our novitiate in St. Paul, Minn., after spending 30 days in silence. We had completed the Spiritual Exercises and were to spend the ...

At about the same time that this column will be published on America’s website, I will be getting on a plane, heading into more than 20 hours of travel to South Africa, where I will spend the next ...

Ignatian spirituality and everyday discernment offer the wider church community a distinctive way to listen to the voice of the Spirit, to open ourselves to the grace and mercy of God, to care for the ...

Editor's Note: This is Part I of an analysis of the current state of the Jesuits. Part II, covering some Jesuits’ quest for renewal and the significant roadblocks they face, is available here.

I suspect I was asked for this contribution because of my age. Only Jesuits can be on the far side of 40 and considered young. So first I’ll dispel misconceptions about my Jesuit contemporaries. Some ...

Fr. Patrick Rogers, S.J., the director of Catholic chaplaincy, will leave Georgetown in June to enter the Jesuit tertianship program. Each year, a few hundred students venture into the mountains to ...

Whenever the church puts itself in situations that compromise its integrity and authenticity in proclaiming the Gospel, the historian places matters in perspective. Jesuit Fr. John W. O'Malley, who ...

For four centuries at least, from the Council of Trent (1565) to Vatican II (1965), the Society of Jesus — better known as the Jesuits — dominated the spiritual and intellectual life of the Church.

Editor’s Note: This is Part II of an analysis of the current state of the Jesuits. Part I is available here. The Society of Jesus is celebrating an “Ignatian Year,” commemorating 500 years since St.

The Catholic Church may be on the verge of a new era of laity-supported engagement and encounter as it enters the third decade of the new millennium. So says educator, author and longtime Vatican ...