Ignatian Spirituality

By Shemaiah Gonzalez

Life has been busy. Maybe it is the season of life. My teen sons cannot yet drive but still have violin lessons and jujitsu classes they need to be driven to. And my husband and I have so much work, it is rare we are both home the same ev...

By Kathleen Butler

A few years ago, I visited the town in Ireland where my father’s ancestors lived. The cathedral there was built in the 1950s, so it’s unlikely that any of my relatives were part of its construction. Yet, when I went in, I felt immediately roo...

By dotMagis Editor

As a preface to his declaration about the Incarnation in Philippians, St. Paul said, “The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had.” Wisdom is making peace with the unchangeable. We have the freedom to face the unavoidable wi...

By dotMagis Editor

I am a djembefola (one who plays djembe drums). I learned to play these drums (also known as talking drums) at the age of ten. An older man who lived in my neighborhood in the South Bronx had studied African drumming, and he was kind enough t...

By Jim Manney

Recently I read a column in a Catholic publication that was about an important and controversial topic. Yet it was so full of invective and nasty ad hominem attacks that I had to stop reading it. The readers’ comments online were even worse. T...